Sidi Boulaalam | |
Settlement Type: | Rural commune and town |
Pushpin Map: | Morocco |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Sidi Boulaalam within Morocco |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Morocco |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Marrakesh-Safi |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Essaouira |
Population As Of: | 2014 |
Population Total: | 8142 |
Utc Offset: | +0 |
Timezone Dst: | WEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +1 |
Elevation M: | 453 |
Sidi Boulaalam (Arabic: سيدي بولعلام) is a small town and rural commune in Essaouira Province, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco. It is about 145km (90miles) southwest of Casablanca, north of Route 207 (the Essaouira-Marrakesh road), along Route 2202 between Sidi Aissa Regragui to the northwest and Route 2200 to Tafetachte.[1]
At the time of the 2014 census, the commune had a total population of 8,142 people living in 1,561 households.[2] This was up from the 2004 census of 7,880 people in 1,310 households.[3]
The climate in Sidi Boulaalam is semi-arid, with cooler winters than the coast, freezing occurring in the winter, but it is warmer than the coast in summer. The Köppen-Geiger climate classification is BSk. The average total annual rainfall is only 327mm, with most of it occurring in the winter, and almost no precipitation in July and August.[4]
Fifteen people were killed and many more injured there during a crowd crush for food in November 2017.[5]