Where to Stay in Berkane, Oriental

What is Berkane known for?

Berkane is called the Orange City for the citrus farms that spread around it, and the fruit grown there is sent on across Morocco and abroad. The Beni Snassen mountains rise at its edge. Between those slopes and the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the town sits in farm country rather than on a shore.

What are the main landmarks in Berkane?

Landmarks here are natural. The Beni Snassen mountains form the edge the town is built against, and the Kis river marks the eastern limit toward the Oujda-Angad Prefecture. North of both lies the Mediterranean Sea.

Citrus groves cover the flat ground between those edges, which is what gives Berkane the Orange City name. No single monument stands above them.

What is the history of Berkane?

Farming wrote the modern story. The citrus farms around Berkane gave the town the Orange City name, and the fruit they send across Morocco and abroad is what the place is identified with outside its own province. The flat ground below the Beni Snassen mountains is where those farms sit.

Administration came with a boundary. Berkane is the capital of Berkane Province, one of the units of the Oriental region, and that status fixes the town as the administrative centre of the ground around it. Borders do the rest.

The Kis river marks the eastern side toward the Oujda-Angad Prefecture, Nador Province lies west, Taourirt Province south, and the Mediterranean Sea closes the north. Algeria is close beyond the eastern edge. A town with neighbours like these takes its character from the farm plain, the mountain edge and the frontier together.

The Beni Snassen mountains give the last of it. Their edge is where Berkane stops, and beyond that the ground belongs to slopes rather than to groves. Arabic is the language of the record here, and the Oriental region is the wider frame that Berkane Province sits inside.

Where is Berkane?

Four edges fix Berkane. The Mediterranean Sea lies north, the Kis river and the Oujda-Angad Prefecture east, Nador Province west, and Taourirt Province south, with the Beni Snassen mountains rising at the town's own edge. Algeria is not far east.

The ground between is flat enough for the citrus farms that fill it.

What is the climate of Berkane?

The Beni Snassen mountains and the Mediterranean Sea share the work. Sea air reaches Berkane from the north while the mountain wall stands behind it, and the town sits in the subtropical band with the citrus farms that such a band allows. Orange trees are the evidence.

They ripen fruit that leaves Berkane for the rest of Morocco and for markets abroad.

How do you get to Berkane?

Every approach to Berkane runs over land. Berkane sits inland of the Mediterranean Sea with Nador Province to the west and the Oujda-Angad Prefecture to the east beyond the Kis river, so arrivals run along the corridor between them. Taourirt Province lies to the south.

The Beni Snassen mountains stand at the town's back, so the open approaches are from the coast side and along the province lines. Algeria lies beyond the eastern limit.