A Moroccan customs house, where the homes are permanent
The first meaning of the term aduar presented by the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) in its dictionary refers to a camp of Bedouins : that is, of nomadic Arabs . Customs houses are made up of huts and shops that provide accommodation to those who live in these places.
Small towns
Generally the customs are developed with the shops organized in a circle around the livestock. The customs, in this way, function as small towns, which usually have some type of leader or boss (the sheikh).
There are other uses, however, of the concept of customs. In some American countries, an aborigine tent is called an aduar. Also known as aduar is the set of precarious houses and shops that are built in a marginal region and constitute a poor town.
In the Maghreb
Before continuing, we must offer a brief explanation of the term Maghreb : it is a word adapted from the Arabic language that is defined as the place where the sun sets, the area closest to the west of the Arab world, which we can also express as "the west ". There, aduar is understood as a small town or a group of mobile homes whose inhabitants have a link through their paternal line.
It is worth mentioning that aduar can also be said duar . In addition to the kinship of its inhabitants, another of its characteristics is that it is made up of cabins or shops, precisely because the tribes in question are usually nomadic , although there are known examples of fixed customs.
Moroccan customs
In Morocco, this term can be used to designate a small village or a group of country houses whose number ranges between fifty and four hundred . The Moroccan douar is more often found in the plain than in mountainous areas.
Today, it is the smallest unit of the countryside commune, although they are not part of the official geographical coding. Between two administrative services, the names and number of customs offices may be different.
The arrival of two phenomena made the term Aduar little by little fall into disuse: we are talking about Westernization (the cultural transformation after the influence of the West) and sedentarization (the opposite of nomadism).
Elsewhere
It is interesting to note that this word has been applied to some ancient Spanish colonies to refer to settlements of an informal nature. In Peru and Argentina, for example, you can say aduar to talk about a small settlement in the countryside of American Indians, that is, a rancherío.
On Spanish soil, on the other hand, a gypsy village can be named in the same way; Let us remember that they also carry nomadism in their tradition. In the work La gitanilla , published in 1613 by Miguel de Cervantes , we find this term on several occasions.
The inhabitants of the douars are usually nomads
As a proper name
El Aduar , on the other hand, is the name of a farm club created in what was formerly a haras (pasture) of Arabian horses. It is a private neighborhood with an area of 760 hectares next to the Paraná River , in the province of Buenos Aires ( Argentina ).
In El Aduar there are houses for sale and for rent. The club's infrastructure includes a perimeter fence, access controls, round-the-clock surveillance and a medium-voltage electrical network.
In the town of Las Toninas , also in the province of Buenos Aires , the El Aduar Complex has one, two and three-bedroom apartments for rent and for sale. This real estate development is developed on Costanera Avenue .
Lastly, Pensión Aduar is a tourist establishment in Marbella ( Spain ). This accommodation is located in the old town.