Avenue Mohamed Diouri, Avenue Mohamed V - Kenitra, Morocco
Hakim DAHOUNESourcePublic domain
Back to atlas
Beaches & coast

Kenitra

Atlantic Plain City

Kenitra, Rabat-Sale-Kenitra
Map Nearby

Avenue Mohamed Diouri, Avenue Mohamed V - Kenitra, Morocco

Story

Kenitra — once Port Lyautey — is Morocco's only river port, sitting at the mouth of the Sebou where it meets the Atlantic. The French built it as a military harbour in 1912, and it has been a working, industrial, and university town ever since. It is not a destination for its own sights, and it does not pretend to be: its value is as a gateway. The Mamora cork-oak forest, one of the largest in the world, stretches to the south, and the Merja Zerga wetlands — the great blue lagoon — lie forty minutes north.

This is for the transit traveller and the naturalist, not the sightseer. Use it as a hub; the real prizes are the forest and the lagoon on either side of it.

Moroccan territory

Read the territory

Town or city
Kenitra
Region
Rabat-Sale-Kenitra
destinationRabat-Sale-KenitraKenitra

On the map

Offered by verified locals

No partner offers are attached yet.

If you offer an experience around Kenitra, claim it in the partner portal.

Kenitra