Tarfaya Airport
Tarfaya Airport is an airstrip in Morocco. Tarfaya Airport is situated nearby to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museum.Photo: Timothée Audouin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museum and Mackenzie’s Factory.
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. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museum is situated 1 km southwest of Tarfaya Airport.
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. Mackenzie’s Factory is situated 1½ km west of Tarfaya Airport.
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.
Tarfaya Airport
- Type: Airstrip
- Also known as: “Cabo Juby airdrome”, “Cabo Juby airport”, “Cape Juby Airfield”, “Tarfaya airdrome”, “Tarfaya airport”, and “مطار طرفاية Aérodrome de Tarfaya”
- Categories: airport and transportation
- Location: Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
27.94899° or 27° 56′ 56″ northLongitude
-12.91706° or 12° 55′ 1″ westOpen location code
7CV9W3XM+H5OpenStreetMap ID
node 13737200651OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=airstripWikidata ID
Q116304321
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Tarfaya Airport” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطار طرفاية”
- French: “aérodrome de Tarfaya”
- French: “Aérodrome de Tarfaya”
- Spanish: “Aeródromo de Cabo Juby”
- Spanish: “Aeródromo de Tarfaya”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Cabo Juby”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Tarfaya”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include TARFAYA and Siege Province Tarfaya الحصار مقاطعة طرفاية.
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