Tissint

This article is about the town of Tissint, Tata, Morocco. For the meteorite, see Tissint meteorite.

Tissint (Berber languages: ⵜⵉⵙⵉⵏⵜ, Arabic: تيسينت, also known as Agadir Tissinnt, Agadir Tissint, or Tissinnt) is a small town near Tata, Morocco in Tata Province in the Souss-Massa region of Morocco.^[1] It has a population of 9,927 as of 2004.^[2]

Tissint ⵜⵉⵙⵉⵏⵜ تيسينت
Tissint Location in Morocco
Coordinates: 29°54′02″N 7°19′13″W
Country	Morocco
Region	Souss-Massa
Province	Tata Province
Population  (2004)
• Total	9,927
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (WEST)

Tissint was the site of a meteorite fall on July 18, 2011. In October 2011, nomads began to find very fresh, fusion-crusted stones in a remote area of the Oued Drâa intermittent watershed, centered about 50 km ESE of Tata, Morocco and 48 km SSW of Tissint, near the Oued El Gsaïb drainage and also near El Ga’ïdat plateau known as Hmadat Boû Rba’ine. The largest pieces were recovered in the El Ga’ïdat plateau, and the smallest ones (a few grams) were found closer to the El Aglâb mountains. One 47 g crusted stone was documented as found at 29°28.917’ N, 7°36.674’ W.^[3]