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Tarfaya
alt=|thumb|The town of Tarfaya thumb|right|The fortress Casa del Mar, built by the British in the 1880s Tarfaya ( - Ṭarfāya; ) is a coastal Moroccan town, located at the level of Cape Juby, in western Morocco, on the Atlantic coast. It is located about 890 km southwest of the capital Rabat, and around 100 km from both Laayoune and Lanzarote, in the far east of the Canary Islands. During the colonial era, Tarfaya was a Spanish colony known as Villa Bens. It was unified with Morocco in 1958 after the Ifni War, which started one year after the independence of other regions of Morocco.
Tarfaya Province
province of Morocco
Akhfenir
Akhfennir is a small town in Tarfaya Province, in the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region of Morocco. The area is noted for Khenifiss National Park and Tarfaya-Akhfenir Wind Farm.
Daoura
small town and rural commune in Western Sahara
El Hagounia
rural commune in Morocco
Tah
municipality in Morocco
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Museum
Casa del Mar
Casamar, also known as Port Victoria and '''''Mackenzie's factory''''', was a historical coastal fort built in 1882 in Cape Juby near the city of Tarfaya in Morocco, by the founder of the British North West Africa Company, Donald MacKenzie, who positioned there early in 1879 in the goal of trading with commercial caravans coming from Timbuktu and heading to Wadi Noun. Following an attack on the fortress in 1888, the company gave up the building in 1895 to the Sultan of Morocco Moulay Abd al-Aziz, and withdrew from it after the Treaty of Cape Juby.