Figuig or Figig (Arabic: فجيج, romanized: Fijīj)[2] is an oasis town in eastern Morocco near the Atlas Mountains, on the border with Algeria.
Arab nomads would exhibit merchandise like cooked butter (Udi), dried milk (Ibrassa), and sheep wool (Douft).
In order to increase arable land, many private farmers have constructed soil-filled stone terraces along the Jorf, a salt mountain nearby.
The town's water-supply (aman) is drawn from its northern end, near the pass which serves as the main entrance to Figuig, and water can generally be found there at the shallow depth of 10 metres.
The water is conducted from its source via underground channels (lakbawat) to lime and stone or cement cisterns (sharij), from which farmers can utilise it at their convenience.
New technologies such as cement and steel construction, as well as electricity, gas, telegraphs, cellular networks, digital satellite programming, and even Broadband Internet access, have made their way to Figuig.
[citation needed] A central bureaucracy, held-over from the French control, has supplanted the tribal structure as a center of Figuig's administration.