[1] It is a plain stretching from the Atlantic Ocean south of Sidi Rahal Chatai up to some 50 km further southward and the same distance eastward.

[3] Al-Mu'min brought in less fractious Arab bedouin tribes as immigrantes to settle the area, including the Banu Hilal, a coalition of whom he had defeated earlier in Tunisia.

[5][6] When Captain James Riley (1770 AD) visited it, he said in describing it : " the provinces of Abdah and Duquella, which are entirely peopled by Arabs living in tents, and in a primitive or wandering state, (their tents being formed of the same materials, and pitch- ed in the same manner as those of the Arabs on the desert) I observed that these people were of a much lighter com- plexion than those on the desert; but that circumstance, in all probability, was owing to the climate's being more temperate; to their being less exposed to the rays of the sun, and better clothed; yet their features were nearly the same, and those of both bear a strong resemblance to those of the Barbary Jews, who also have black eyes and Arab noses".

[citation needed] At the end of the French protectorate (ca 1950), there lived in Doukkala 372,269 Muslims, 2,680 Europeans and 3,933 Jews.

A temporary natural lake between Sidi Bennour and Larbaa Ouled Amrane called "Ouarar" (Arabic: ورار) only fills in rainy years.