| During
my recent visit to Tan-Tan,
I discovered a really promising region, totally different
from the one I visited four years ago. The most
attracting trend I discovered is the harmony that exists
between the public sector and the private sector to boost
all sectors of the economy in Tan-Tan
province.
While the public sector
in Tan-Tan
province is providing
infrastructure and play the facilitating role, the private
sector is spearheading the development activities envisaged
under various economic programs which provides a major role
for the private sector in almost all the sectors of the
economy, particularly fishing, tourism, trade, transport,
real estate, services industries, finance and banking,
business- support. private services and manufacturing.
|
|
Tan-Tan
the town becomes Tan-Tan
the city. Tan-Tan
province is now becoming Tan-Tan
the provincial, regional capital of the
future
|
|
|
Tan-Tan Province fronts the Atlantic Ocean (northwest), and is bounded
by the province of Guelmim (east) and the Moroccan province of es-Semara (south) and Laâyoune
province (southwest).
Tan-Tan is located
in southwestern Morocco. The town, about 16 mi (25 km) by road east
of the Atlantic Ocean in the extreme northwestern reaches of the
Moroccan Sahara.
Tan-Tan embraces an
area of 6,678 sq mi (17,295 sq km). The territory that now comprises
Tan-Tan province became a part of the
Spanish Protectorate of Morocco (the area defined as an integral
part of Morocco by a Franco- Spanish convention in 1912) known
variously as the Tekla zone, Tarfaya zone, or Spanish Southern
Morocco. This region was returned to Morocco in 1958 and in 1976 Tan-Tan
province was established in its northwest corner.
Tan-Tan
province is a relatively flat, stony plain
with occasional intermittent stream beds, low-lying mountains,
ridges, and saline depressions; sand dune beaches and high cliffs
are found on the Atlantic coast. Ocean fog preserves limited scrub
growth near the coast.
Nomads are increasingly raising sheep rather
than camels, and practicing transhumance. The population of Tan-Tan
province is estimated at 58.079.
 Tan-Tan
the town becomes Tan-Tan the city. Tan-Tan
province is now becoming Tan-Tan the
provincial, regional capital of the future, The annual Musim, a
commercial and religious fair, attracts traders and nomads from as
far away as Senegal and Marrakech; camels and sheep are exchanged
for grains, tea, sugar, and other necessities.
Today, Tan-Tan
is changing to a promising business center rising from a
glorious past and attractive potentials for investors and
businessmen.
|
