Natural world · Evidence-led place record

M’Goun UNESCO Global Geopark

MA

Azilal is a buzzing city with traditional Moroccan architecture and food, and is home to the impressive Azilal Museum. Each year the Aït Hdiddu tribes hold an engagement festival where young men and women can meet. It is considered one of the most beautiful and unique gatherings in Morocco. Visit the amazing Mastfrane Cathedral, an imposing sandstone formation rising 300 m above the Assif n’zou Ahançal valley.

M’Goun UNESCO Global Geopark in MA
Photo: Nisrine Kchikach, Hassan Ibouh, Abderrahim Benali, Anas Charbaoui, Abdelhafid El Alaoui El Fels · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
CategoryUNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK
LocationMA
DatasetUNESCO Global Geoparks
Listed/year2015
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness95%
SignificanceGLOBAL GEOHERITAGE; 573,000 ha

The oddity, explained

Why is M’Goun UNESCO Global Geopark unusual?

M’Goun UNESCO Global Geopark appears here because the approved source classifies it as natural world. The source describes it as Azilal is a buzzing city with traditional Moroccan architecture and food, and is home to the impressive Azilal Museum. Each year the Aït Hdiddu tribes hold an engagement festival where young men and women can meet. It is considered one of the most beautiful and unique gatherings in Morocco. Visit the amazing Mastfrane Cathedral, an imposing sandstone formation rising 300 m above the Assif n’zou Ahançal valley. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.

Evidence and further exploration

The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.

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