El Taref الطارف
City
Location of El Taref in the El Taref Province
El Taref Location of El Taref in the Algeria
Coordinates: 36°46′01″N 8°19′01″E / 36.767°N 8.317°E / 36.767; 8.317
Country	Algeria
Province	El Taref Province
District	El Taref District
APC	2012-2017
Government
• Type	Municipality
Area
• Land	43.0 sq mi (111.4 km2)
Population  (2008)
• Total	25,594
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
ISO 3166 code	CP
Climate	Csa

El Taref (Arabic: الطارف) is a city in Algeria. It is the capital of El Taref Province. El Kala 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 and Iberdrola are building a power station in El Taref, beginning in mid-2008, a project which will increase Algeria's energy capacity by 18%.^[1]

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