El Taref ( ar, الطارف) is a city in
Algeria
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. It is the capital of
El Taref Province
El Taref ( ar, ولاية الطارف) is a province (''wilaya'') of Algeria. El Kala is a port town in this province. El Taref is the capital city. El Kala, a port town in this province, is home to ''El Kala National Park''.
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El Kala
El Kala ( ar, القالة, Latin ''Thinisa in Numidia'') is a seaport of Algeria, in El Tarf Province, 56 miles (90 km) by rail east of Annaba and 10 miles (16 km) west of the Tunisian frontier. It is the centre of the Algerian and Tuni ...
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.
General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable en ...
and
Iberdrola
Iberdrola () is a Spanish multinational electric utility company based in Bilbao, Spain. Iberdrola has a workforce of around 34,000 employees serving around 31.67 million customers. Subsidiaries include Scottish Power (United Kingdom) ...
are building a power station in El Taref, beginning in mid-2008, a project which will increase Algeria's
energy capacity by 18%.
[''Algerian power station construction attributed to GE-Iberdrola'', Algerie Presse Service, June 11, 2008, internet article.]
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Communes of El Taref Province
Province seats of Algeria
El Taref Province