Tarfaya

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Tarfaya (طرفاية) is a little port town (5615p, in2004) and capital of the Tarfaya province. At the mainstreet, there are a good cafe and some grill to eat fish.
During the Spanish colonization 1916 - 1958 it was named Villa Bens. The former international airport at Cap Juby used since 10.10.1927 for aéropostale and passagers on the air route Toulouse(France)- CaboJuby - Dakar(Senegal)- Natal(Brazil) - Buenos Aires(Agentinia). wikimapia.org/#lat=27.9457725&lon=-12.9271317&z=15&l=0...
At the beach there is a monument to the French aviator, author and chef of this airport from 1927 to 1928, Antoine de Saint Exupéry. In this time he wrote here his first roman "Courrier sud". wikimapia.org/#lat=27.9420382&lon=-12.9276037&z=16&l=0... Photos:www.panoramio.com/photo/22088379 and 26033042
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry

Nearby the "Casa Del Mar” build in 1889 by the merchant and member of the Antislavery Society Donald Mackenzie wikimapia.org/#lat=27.9457725&lon=-12.9271317&z=15&l=0...

and at the southside of Tarfaya the shipwreck of the ferry Armas which run the route to Fuerteventura three times weekly - until the Avril 2008: wikimapia.org/#lat=27.9152119&lon=-12.9633522&z=15&l=0...

wind farm wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=27.853040&lon=-13.000259&z=...