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Drarga

rural commune of Morocco

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ542826 ↗
Source-derived summary

Drarga or Drargua (Arabic: الدراركة) is a rural commune and town in western Morocco, situated in the suburban area of Agadir, in the Souss-Massa region. The 2004 census recorded a population of 17,059 inhabitants in the urban centre, which increased to 50,946 inhabitants in the 2014 census. The commune as a whole recorded a population of 126,000 in the 2014 census. The town is notably the site of the Agadir Crocodile park, a tourist attraction.

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“Drarga” enters the record as rural commune of Morocco. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Drarga, rural and commune can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Drarga, rural and commune.
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“Drarga” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Drarga, rural and commune provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q542826. Authority coordinates are 30.380, -9.476. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Drarga” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.