Progress on the Atlas of Morocco

This report reviews the second series of cartographic works prepared by the Geography Committee of Morocco for the Atlas of Morocco. Publications issued in 1958 include an explanatory volume on forests, a plate on annual precipitation, and a four-sheet plate on European rural holdings. Based chiefly on 1925–1949 observations, the precipitation materials map annual means, rainy days, dry months, and the pluviometric network. Agricultural maps use survey data to depict the distribution and size of European-owned rural estates as of July 1955, together with cereal, industrial-crop, horticultural, and livestock production. Each plate is supported by specialist documentation and maps at several scales. Planned sections on saline waters, maritime traffic, hydrography, and hydrology indicate the Atlas’s continuing development as a systematic geographical record of Morocco’s environment and rural economy.