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El Taref

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Country
  
Algeria

APC
  
2012-2017

ISO 3166 code
  
CP

Local time
  
Wednesday 5:07 AM

Province
  
El Taref Province

District
  
El Taref District

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Climate
  
Csa

Population
  
25,594 (2008)

El Taref

Weather
  
14°C, Wind NW at 37 km/h, 77% Humidity

El Taref (Arabic: الطارف‎‎) is a city in Algeria. It is the capital of El Taref Province. El Kala is a port town near El Taref. El Taref is 700 kilometers east of Algiers. In 1998, it had a population of around 20,300.

Map of El Tarf, Algeria

General Electric and Iberdrola are building a power station in El Taref, beginning in mid-2008, a project which will increase Algeria's energy capacity by 18%.

A network which specialized in forgery, stolen identity, and theft, across the eastern provinces of Algeria, was broken in El Taref, in June 2008. Investigators took three people into custody and four others were searched by security services.

References

El Taref Wikipedia