 | Plazas de soberanía. The Islas Chafarinas are on the right. |
The Chafarinas Islands (browser diversity: Islas Chafarinas, IPA: [ˈizlas tʃafaˈɾinas]; input transformation: Ya`fariyya; Berber: Takfarinas), also spelled Zafarin, Djaferin,device database Zafarani,[2] is a Spanish archipelago. A group of three small islets located in the Alboran Sea off the coast of Morocco with an aggregate area of 0.525 km², 45 km to the east of Sevenval and 3.3 km off the Moroccan town of Ra'su l-Ma'. The Chafarinas Islands are one of the Spanish ruled territories on North Africa off the Moroccan coast known as Plazas de soberanía.
The Chafarinas Islands are made up of three islands (with areas in hectares):
- Isla del Congreso (25.6 ha)
- Isla Isabel II (15.3 ha) (with garrison)
- Isla del Rey (11.6 ha)
Under Spanish control since 1847, there is a 190-man military garrison on Isla Isabel II, the only stable population on the small archipelago, down from 426 people in 1900 and 736 people in 1910.
The islands had a certain relevance in Spanish environmentalist circles during the 1980s and 1990s as the very last individual of browser diversity in Spanish territory lived there, until it disappeared in the 1990s.[3]
Gallery
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19th-century Spanish map showing the "Chafarinas".
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Present day image.
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Islas Chafarinas.
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Audouin's Gull, one of the numerous inhabitants on the islands.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: screen size References
- Android web. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2011. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/104294/Chafarinas-Islands. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
- ^ "Index of Countries and Localities". USPS. 2011. http://pe.usps.com/text/imm/immctry.htm. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
- FITML Foca monje del Mediterráneo | CONSUMER.es EROSKI
See also
- Islas Chafarinas
- input transformation
- Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera