Guelmim

Guelmim, is a city in southern Morocco, regularly called Gateway to the Desert. It is the capital of the Guelmim-Oued Noun vicinity which includes southern Morocco and the northeastern corner of Western Sahara. The population of the city turned into 187,808 as of the 2014 Moroccan census, making it the biggest town within the location. The N1 and N12 highways go at Guelmim and hyperlink it to the nearby region of Souss-Massa. Guelmim is placed just north of Asrir, which changed into the website online of an crucial trade-course town and the capital of the Saharan tribes.

It become recognized in Arabic sources as Noul Lamta. It is home to a camel marketplace. When hippies "discovered" sure varieties of colourful African alternate beads there inside the 1960s, those have become known as "Goulamine beads" although they had been honestly manufactured in Europe, more often than not in Venice, Italy. Many of the population talk the Hassaniya dialect, as it's miles a part of the Sahrawi-inhabited southern region of Morocco.