Cape Juby

On 28 May 1767, Mohammed ben Abdallah, the Sultan of Morocco, signed a peace and commerce treaty with King Charles III of Spain.

[1][2][3] On 1 March 1799, Sultan Slimane signed an accord with King Charles IV of Spain, in which he recognized that the Saguia el Hamra and Cape Juby regions were not part of his dominions (Art.

[2][3] In 1879, the British North West Africa Company established a trading post near Cape Juby called "Port Victoria".

Mackenzie's idea was to cut a channel from one of the sand-barred lagoons north of Cape Juby south to a large plain which Arab traders had identified to him as El Djouf.

He proposed that this inland sea, if augmented with a canal, could provide access to the Niger River and the markets and rich resources of West Africa.

[6] There are several small depressions in the vicinity of Cape Juby; at 55 m (180 ft) below sea level, the Sebkha Tah[7][circular reference] is the lowest and largest.

Regions of Morocco in colonial times
A monument in Tarfaya , Cape Juby, Morocco, commemorating Aéropostale 's mail stopover station and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , its manager.
Walter Mittelholzer 's traveling companions playing ball on the beach of Cape Juby , image between 1930 and 1931, during Spanish protectorate in Morocco .