Tan-Tan

Tan -Tan (Arabic طانطان, tantan DMG ) is a town in southern Morocco.

Location

The 60 698 inhabitants, (2004), is the capital of the province of Tan -Tan. Tan -Tan is located 27 km from the coast of the Atlantic Ocean away. Through the village leads extending in the north / south direction along the coast highway. The town lies on both banks of the temporarily water leading Oued Khil. The locals call Tan -Tan also al -Hamra ( the Red ).

The city is traversed full length to 1.8 kilometers through the main shopping street and Avenue Mohammed V.. At the central market is the mosque built in 1942 Mosquée du Souk.

On the Atlantic coast of Tan -Tan since the late 1990s with Chinese support of the first Moroccan nuclear reactor (NHR -10) planned. The 10- MW plant to be coupled with a system for desalination of sea water and are used for irrigation agriculture. By distillation to 8000 cubic meters of potable water produced per day. 2010, a preliminary study was completed.

History

The city was in the Spanish colonial period, a post of the Spanish military and in 1958 was handed over to Morocco.

People

Patron saint of the city is the 1960 died and three kilometers west of Tan -Tan beige sat Mohammed Ma el Laghdaf Ainin.