The village has approximately 4,500 inhabitants.

In the Colonial age the village was called Villa Bens, which at the same time was the administrative seat of Spanish South Morocco.

Tarfaya became a supraregional meaning in 1975, when 350,000 participants of the Green March were camping in its proximity.

At the beach you will find a monument of the famous pilot and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince) who was stationed here in the mid 20th of the last century.

Remarkable are also the enormous dunes alongside the Atlantic Ocean.

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