A Spanish city on the north coast of Africa, Ceuta is in the north of Morocco, directly opposite Gibraltar. The city was occupied by Portugal in 1415, but it has been under Spanish control since Portugal and Spain separated in 1640. Ceuta was the first Western European possession on the African mainland -- and now it is one of the last. Ceuta is governed as an autonomous city within the Kingdom of Spain. It is accessible by frequent ferries from Algeciras on the other side of the Strait of Gibraltar. The word for a lighthouse is faro in Spanish, but its use is generally restricted to the larger coastal light stations. Smaller lighthouses are called balizas (beacons). The navigational lights in Spain are the responsibility of the national port authority, Puertos del Estado, but most of them are operated and maintained by regional port authorities. In Ceuta they are operated by the port authority, the Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. ES numbers are from the Spanish national list of lights, Libro de Faros. Admiralty numbers are from volume D of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 113.
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Created August 10, 2005. Checked and revised December 23, 2016. Lighthouses: 1. Site copyright 2016 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.