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Arona, Tenerife
Arona is a municipality in the southern part of the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spanish region and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. The municipality covers an area of 81.79 square kilometres comprising 4% of the island's area. The town of Arona is 59 km southwest of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the island's capital. The population in 2017 was about 93,496. It is the third largest city in Tenerife, after, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Arona has a pleasant climate with temperatures ranging from 20 to 25 degrees Celsius. Notable places include the tourist resorts of Los Cristianos, Playa de las Americas, Costa del Silencio and Las Galletas. Arona also features Punta Salemas, the southernmost point of the island of Tenerife. The TF-1 motorway passes through the municipality. History The area was sparsely populated in the initial centuries since the settlement of the island. While Viera y Clavijo mentioned a small village of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Municipalities In Santa Cruz De Tenerife
This is a list of the 54 municipalities in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands, Spain - 31 on Tenerife Island, 14 on La Palma Island, 6 on La Gomera Island and 3 on El Hierro Island. References See also *Geography of Spain *List of cities in Spain *List of municipalities in Las Palmas {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Municipalities In Santa Cruz De Tenerife Santa Cruz de Tenerife Santa Cruz de Tenerife, commonly abbreviated as Santa Cruz (), is a city, the capital of the island of Tenerife, Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and capital of the Canary Islands. Santa Cruz has a population of 206,593 (2013) within its admi ... municipalities in Santa Cruz de Tenerife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viera Y Clavijo
Viera may refer to: Places *Viera, Florida, a community in the United States *Viera, Piedmont, a subdivision in the municipality of Coggiola, province of Biella, Italy *The Dolmen de Viera or Dolmen de los Hermanos Viera, a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb in Antequera, Spain *Viera, a historical name of what now tends to be called Wyre, an island of the Orkney Islands, Scotland People * Viera (given name) * José de Viera y Clavijo (1731–1813), Spanish historian * Feliciano Viera (1872–1927), President of Uruguay (1915–1919) * Helvecia Viera (1928–2009), Chilean actress and comedian * Ricardo Viera (1945-2020), Cuban artist * Sebastián Viera (born 1983), Uruguayan-born footballer * Jonathan Viera (born 1989), Spanish footballer * Gustavo Viera (Paraguayan footballer) (born 1995), Paraguayan football midfielder * Gustavo Viera (Uruguayan footballer) (born 2000), Uruguayan football forward * Santiago Viera (born 1998), Uruguayan footballer * Tabaré Viera (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe and Asia from the "New World" of the Americas in the European perception of the World. The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Europe and Africa to the east, and North and South America to the west. As one component of the interconnected World Ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean, to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south (other definitions describe the Atlantic as extending southward to Antarctica). The Atlantic Ocean is divided in two parts, by the Equatorial Counter Current, with the North(ern) Atlantic Ocean and the South(ern) Atlantic Ocean split at about 8°N. Scientific explorations of the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Miguel De Abona
San Miguel de Abona is a town and a municipality in the southern part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. The TF-1 motorway passes through the southern part of the municipality. The population is 16,099 (2013Instituto Canario de Estadística , population), its area is 42.04 km2. In the south of the municipality, on the coastline, lies the and holiday/residential village of Golf del Sur. Also on the coast is Amarilla Golf & Country Club. Golf del Sur has hosted several |
Vilaflor
Vilaflor is a municipality and village in the south-central part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province), Spain. Vilaflor, with an altitude of 1,400 m, is the highest village on Tenerife, situated south of the Teide volcano. It is located 7 km north of San Miguel de Abona and 51 km southwest of the island's capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The population is 1,645 (2018)Instituto Canario de Estadística , population and the area is 56.26 km². Sights *Paisaje Lunar, a geological curiosity created by erosion *El Piño Gordo pine tree. *The mineral springs of Fuente Alta, which can be found at 1400 meters above sea level in a protected nature reserve ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospital Del Sur De Tenerife
The Hospital del Sur de Tenerife (in English: ''Hospital of the South of Tenerife'') is located in the municipality of Arona, in the south of the island of Tenerife ( Canary Islands, Spain). It was opened in 2015. The Hospital del Sur de Tenerife is, together with its counterpart the Hospital del Norte de Tenerife, the main health centers in the island of Tenerife after the third level hospitals: the Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria (in Santa Cruz de Tenerife) and the Hospital Universitario de Canarias (in San Cristóbal de La Laguna San Cristóbal de La Laguna (commonly known as La Laguna, ) is a city and municipality in the northern part of the island of Tenerife in the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, on the Canary Islands, Spain. The city is the third-most populous ci ...). It is a center with coverage for the municipalities of the south of the island of Tenerife. The Hospital of the South of Tenerife has, according to its classification as a seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno González
Bruno González Cabrera (born 24 May 1990), known simply as Bruno, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central defender. Club career Tenerife Bruno was born in Las Galletas, Tenerife, Canary Islands. A product of local CD Tenerife's youth ranks, he made his senior debut with the reserves in 2009–10, being relegated from Segunda División B. On 4 June 2011, he played his first official game with the first team, a 1–0 away loss against neighbouring UD Las Palmas which was his only Segunda División appearance of the season, ended in the same fashion for the main squad. In August 2011, Bruno was loaned to CD Teruel of the third division in a season-long move. He subsequently returned to Tenerife in the summer of 2012 and was definitely promoted to the first team, appearing in 38 matches in 2012–13 as they returned to the second tier after a two-year absence. Bruno scored his first goal as a professional on 1 December 2013, closing the 2–2 draw at Girona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenerife South Airport
Tenerife South Airport ( es, Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur) , also known as Tenerife South–Reina Sofía Airport, is the larger of the two international airports located on the island of Tenerife (the other being Tenerife North Airport) and the second busiest in the Canary Islands (after Gran Canaria Airport). It is located in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona and handled over 11 million passengers in 2018. Combined with Tenerife North Airport, the island gathers the highest passenger movement of all the Canary Islands, with 12,248,673 passengers, surpassing Gran Canaria Airport. History In the late 1960s, the island authorities of Tenerife found the need for a new airport at a new location, because the existing airport did not meet technical requirements due to adverse weather conditions, especially low visibility in foggy conditions. The new airport was inaugurated on 6 November 1978, by Queen Sofía of Spain, to whom the airport is dedicated. The first flight was Ib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Park Of Arona
The Parque Central de Arona is a public park of 42,000 square metres in Arona, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. It is made up of several squares and gardens in the tourist centre of Playa de las Americas. The park, which opened in 2004, was commissioned by the Cabildo de Tenerife and designed by GBGV Architects (Architect Jorge Mosquera Paniagua) and the botanist Carlo Morici. The park displays the native flora of the Canary Islands. Walkways are lined with tamarind and macadamia trees. A third of the area is covered with over 40 species of palm trees intermingled with tropical vegetation. The family Bombaceae is well represented by ''Chorisia speciosa'', ''Bombax ceiba'', ''Ceiba pentandra'', and several baobabs, including ''Adansonia digitata'' and '' A. grandidieri''. Morici designed an environmental reconstruction of the endangered Canarian coastal scrub, typically characterized by ''Euphorbia balsamifera'' and ''Euphorbia canariensis''. Other trees include the officia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wingate School (Spain)
Wingate School is a British international school in Arona, Tenerife, Spain. It achieved the rating of "Outstanding" by British Schools Overseas (BSO) inspectors in 2023. It teaches from Foundation to Sixth Form (3-18 years). History The school was founded as a primary school by two parents in 1982, and it initially had 7 students: their own two sons and five other expatriate children from the local area. The mother is still involved in the school and one of the two sons remains an active proprietor. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Tenerife in 2020, holidaymakers on the island were quarantined in their hotel. The school staff organised donations from local bookshops and others to provide books and games for the stranded tourists. In response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the school offered free tuition to children up to 13 years old who had been forced out of their homes in the conflict. The offer was limited to 24 children (2 per class) in order to keep class s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Federation Of The Canary Islands
The Islamic Federation of the Canary Islands (in Spanish: ''Federación Islámica de Canarias'') is a Muslim religious organization that brings together associations and Islamic religious communities around the Canary Islands. Its headquarters is located in the town of Los Cristianos, in the municipality of Arona south of the island of Tenerife (Spain). History The Islamic Federation of the Canary Islands was established in 2015 in analogous manner to those in other regions of Spain. To this end they worked different associations and Muslim communities around the archipelago and the municipalities of Adeje and Arona. Being at this time Tijani Mimoun El Bouji president of the Federation and the spokesman Abdssamad Mohamed. This organization was created with the primary objective of providing advice to the Canary Islamic communities and facilitate their integration. The Islamic Federation of the Canary Islands is a member for registration via the Islamic Commission of Spain an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cochineal
The cochineal ( , ; ''Dactylopius coccus'') is a scale insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the natural dye carmine is derived. A primarily sessility (motility), sessile parasitism, parasite native to tropical and subtropical South America through North America (Mexico and the Southwest United States), this insect lives on Cactus, cacti in the genus ''Opuntia'', feeding on plant moisture and nutrients. The insects are found on the pads of prickly pear cacti, collected by brushing them off the plants, and dried. The insect produces carminic acid that deters predation by other insects. Carminic acid, typically 17–24% of dried insects' weight, can be extracted from the body and eggs, then mixed with aluminium or calcium salts to make carmine dye, also known as cochineal. Today, carmine is primarily used as a Food coloring, colorant in food and in lipstick (Carmine, E120 or Carminic acid, Natural Red 4). Carmine dye was used in the Americas for coloring fabrics and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
