Editing Cape Juby (section)

{{Short description|Cape in southern Morocco}}
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[[File:Morocco Protectorate.svg|thumb|right|Regions of Morocco in colonial times]]
'''Cape Juby''' ({{Langx|ar|رأس جوبي}}, [[Arabic transliteration|trans.]] ''Raʾs Juby'', {{langx|es|link=no|Cabo Juby}}) is a [[cape (geography)|cape]] on the coast of southern [[Morocco]], near the [[Morocco–Western Sahara border|border with Western Sahara]], directly east of the [[Canary Islands]].
[[File:Tarfaya Saint-Exupery.jpg|thumb|A monument in [[Tarfaya]], Cape Juby, Morocco, commemorating [[Aéropostale (aviation)|Aéropostale]]'s mail stopover station and [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]], its manager.]]

Its surrounding area, including the cities of [[Tarfaya]] and [[Tan-Tan]], is called the '''Cape Juby Strip''' (after the [[homonymous]] cape), the '''Tarfaya Strip''' (after the [[homonymous]] city) or the '''Tekna Zone''' (after the [[Tekna]], the native [[Sahrawi people|Sahrawi]] tribe). The region is presently the far south of internationally recognized Morocco, and makes up a semi-desert [[buffer zone]] between Morocco proper at the [[Draa River]] and [[Western Sahara]]. The strip was under Spanish rule during much of the 20th century, officially as part of the [[Spanish protectorate in Morocco]], but mainly administered alongside [[Saguía el-Hamra]] and [[Río de Oro]] as part of [[Spanish Sahara]], with which the Strip had closer cultural and historical links.