Casa Mar
Casa Mar is in Morocco.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mackenzie’s Factory and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museum.
Mackenzie’s Factory
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museum
Museum
Photo: ElWaliElAlaoui, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Antoine de Saint Exupéry Museum is a museum of air mail in Tarfaya, Morocco. Founded in 2004, it is devoted to author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who lived there for two years, from 1927 to 1929, and found there the inspiration for much of his literary work.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tarfaya.
Tarfaya
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tarfaya 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.
Casa Mar
- Type: Rock
- Also known as: “La Casa del Mar”
- Category: landform
- Location: Morocco, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.94627° or 27° 56′ 47″ northLongitude
-12.931° or 12° 55′ 52″ westElevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
7CV9W3W9+GHGeoNames ID
2553600
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