Loukkos River Estuary

The estuary where the Loukkos river meets the Atlantic, forming one of the largest wetland systems on the Moroccan Atlantic coast. Flamingos winter here. Spoonbills and herons feed in the shallows. The Lixus ruins are visible on the hill above the north bank. The estuary is the reason the Phoenicians, Romans, and later the Portuguese all chose this particular piece of coast.