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Imsouane is a small commune on Morocco’s Atlantic coast, perched between the ocean and the edge of the desert. Part of the prefecture of Agadir Ida-Outanane in the Souss-Massa region, it lies roughly 70 km north of Agadir and 100 km south of Essaouira. Though world-famous today for its surf, Imsouane remains first and foremost a fishing village and a rural commune.
The commune stretches along a rugged stretch of the Atlantic coast, where the foothills of the Western High Atlas drop down to the sea. There is no real town centre; instead, life clusters around the bay and the fishing harbour, with scattered douars (hamlets) inland. The coastline is the commune’s defining feature — a sheltered bay on one side and rocky reef points on the other.
At the 2014 census, Imsouane counted 8,866 inhabitants living in 1,902 households — a slight decline from 9,353 in 2004. The population is spread across the village and the surrounding rural douars rather than a single urban centre.
Fishing has always been the backbone of Imsouane: the harbour, built in the late 1990s, still lands the day’s catch each morning. Small-scale agriculture and, increasingly, tourism complete the local economy.
Imsouane is internationally renowned for its surfing conditions — surfing, bodyboarding and longboarding — thanks to two very different spots: a reef break that can reach 5–6 metres in winter, and “the Bay”, whose wave peels for more than 800 metres, a paradise for longboarders.
Imsouane was established as a commune in 1992, during a territorial reorganisation; before that it fell under the Tamri caïdat and the Inezgane circle. Today the village serves as the administrative seat (caïdat) for the surrounding area, even though it has no urban centre of its own.
Source: French Wikipedia — Imsouane.