Tarfaya
Sign in to savealt=|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.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tarfaya
- Settlement.native_name
- طرفايةⵟⵔⴼⴰⵢⴰ
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Tarfaya city.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 280px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Aerial view of Tarfaya
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Morocco#Africa
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Morocco, as shown at bottom left.
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tarfaya Province
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2014
- Settlement.population_total
- 8,027
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
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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 is the capital and main town in the Tarfaya Province, and counts a population of 8,027 inhabitants according to the 2014 census. Although founded in the twentieth century, the city has great symbolic significance in Moroccan history, dating back to the era of the Green March in November 1975.