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Parque Del Drago
Drago Park ( es, Parque del Drago) is a park and one of the main visitor attractions in Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife. Created at the turn of the millennium, it contains El Drago Milenario, a dragon tree thought to be around 1,000 years old, as well as a variety of other native plants. Contents The park has an area of around . It houses the El Drago Milenario, the oldest and largest specimen of ''Dracaena draco'' (dragon tree) in existence, and one of the symbols of Tenerife, estimated to be between 800 and 1,000 years old. It also has a variety of other plants that are endemic to Tenerife and the Canary Islands, including younger specimens of ''Dracaena draco'', cardoons, and tabaibas. It also houses a winery and coal bunker, as well as a cave with a representation of a Guanche burial. History The park was created around the El Drago Milenario, and is the main attraction in Icod de los Vinos. It was designed between 1997 and 2000 by two professors of the University of La Lag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icod De Los Vinos
Icod de los Vinos is a municipality in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province), Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands (Spain), located in the northwestern part of the island. Inhabitants of Icod are known in Spanish language, Spanish as ''"icodenses"''. Icod has an area of 95.90 km², is situated at an altitude of 235 metres above sea level, and has a population of 23,092 as of 2013.Instituto Canario de Estadística Location Icod de los Vinos is located on a continuous smooth slope that stretches from the extensive forests of Canary Island Pine down to the sea, and has almost 10 km of shoreline. The city is surrounded by fertile valley, and its streets and corners offer views of the v ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenerife
Tenerife (; ; formerly spelled ''Teneriffe'') is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands. It is home to 43% of the total population of the archipelago. With a land area of and a population of 978,100 inhabitants as of January 2022, it is also the most populous island of Spain and of Macaronesia. Approximately five million tourists visit Tenerife each year; it is the most visited island in the archipelago. It is one of the most important tourist destinations in Spain and the world, hosting one of the world's largest carnivals, the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The capital of the island, , is also the seat of the island council (). That city and are the co-capitals of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. The two cities are both home to governmental institutions, such as the offices of the presidency and the ministries. This has been the arrangement since 1927, when the Crown ordered it. (After the 1833 territorial division of Spain, until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Drago Milenario
El Drago, also known as Drago Milenario and Drago de Icod de los Vinos, is the oldest and largest living specimen of ''Dracaena draco'', or dragon tree, in Parque del Drago, Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife, Spain. It is said to be a thousand years old, although the age is disputed. It is one of the symbols of Tenerife, and was declared a national monument in 1917. Description It is the largest and oldest living specimen of ''Dracaena draco'' (common name dragon tree). It is in Parque del Drago, Icod de los Vinos in Tenerife. It is around tall, with a circumference around . It has over 300 main branches. The trunk contains a cavity accessible by a door, with a fan installed to provide ventilation. It is estimated to weigh around . When it flowered in 1995, it had around 1,800 flowering branches, with its weight increasing by during the fruiting season. It is one of the symbols of Tenerife. It was depicted on the 1,000 peseta note. It is part of the coat of arms for the Ico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drago Milenario, Icod De Los Vinos, Tenerife, España, 2012-12-13, DD 01
Drago may refer to: People * Drago (given name) * Drago (surname) * Drago (wrestler), Mexican professional wrestler Víctor Soto * Drago Dumbovic, Croatian footballer known simply as Drago * Drago, nickname of Alexander Volkov * Prince del Drago, 1860–1956, Italian noble and New York socialite Fictional characters * Ivan Drago, a boxer in the film ''Rocky IV'' * Blackie Drago, a supervillain from Marvel Comics * Drago, a character from ''Jackie Chan Adventures'' * Dragos, dinosaur-like creatures in the video game ''Mother 3'' * Drago, the Dragonoid from ''Bakugan'' series Other uses * Drago (fabric mill) * Drago (publisher), International publishing house of contemporary art * Drago (river), Sicily * Drago Doctrine, announced in 1902 by the Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luis María Drago * Drago restaurants of California * Drago Tree, common name for the species ''Dracaena draco'' See also * * * * Proper names derived from Drag- * Proper names derived from Draz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dracaena Draco
''Dracaena draco'', the Canary Islands dragon tree or drago, is a subtropical tree in the genus '' Dracaena'', native to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, western Morocco, and is thought to be introduced in the Azores. Its closest living relative is the dragon blood tree of Socotra, ''Dracaena cinnabari''. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1762 as ''Asparagus draco''. In 1767 he assigned it to the new genus, Dracaena. Description ''Dracaena draco'' is an evergreen long lived tree with up to or more in height and a trunk or more in circumference, starting with a smooth bark that evolves to a more rough texture as it ages. The "dragon tree" is a Monocot, with a branching growth pattern currently placed in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoidae). When young it has a single stem. At about 10–15 years of age the stem stops growing and produces a flower spike with white, lily-like perfumed flowers, followed by coral berries. Soon a crown o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardoon
The cardoon, ''Cynara cardunculus'' (), also called the artichoke thistle, is a thistle in the family Asteraceae. It is a naturally occurring species that also has many cultivated forms, including the globe artichoke. It is native to the western and central Mediterranean region, where it was domesticated in ancient times and still occurs as a wild plant. Description The wild cardoon is a stout herbaceous perennial plant growing tall, with deeply lobed and heavily spined green to grey-green tomentose (hairy or downy) leaves up to long, with yellow spines up to 3.5 cm long. The flowers are violet-purple, produced in a large, globose, massively spined capitulum up to in diameter.Tela Botanica: ''Cynara cardunculus'' L. (in French)Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Diction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guanches
The Guanches were the indigenous inhabitants of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean some west of Africa. It is believed that they may have arrived on the archipelago some time in the first millennium BCE. The Guanches were the only native people known to have lived in the Macaronesian archipelago region before the arrival of Europeans, as there is no accepted evidence that the other Macaronesian archipelagos (the Cape Verde Islands, Madeira and the Azores) were inhabited. After the Spanish conquest of the Canaries starting in the early 15th century, many natives were wiped out by the Spanish settlers while others interbred with the settler population, although elements of their culture survive within Canarian customs and traditions, such as Silbo (the whistled language of La Gomera Island). In 2017, the first genome-wide data from the Guanches confirmed a North African origin and that they were genetically most similar to ancient North African Berber peoples of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of La Laguna
The University of La Laguna (ULL; Spanish: ''Universidad de La Laguna'') is a public research university situated in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, on the island of Tenerife, Spain. It is the oldest university in the Canary Islands. The university has six campuses: Central, Anchieta, Guajara, Campus del Sur, Ofra and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. In 2015, the University of La Laguna entered the ranking of the top 500 universities in the world by Shanghai Ranking, being the one of the two Canarian public universities to enter the ranking. In addition, the Leiden ranking, prepared by the Center for Studies of Science and Technology of the Leiden University (Netherlands), has ranked the University of La Laguna as the first Spanish university in scientific collaboration. Meanwhile, in 2016 the University of La Laguna was recognized as the second best university in Spain in Humanities, according to a survey by the Everis Foundation. In the year 2018, the CWUR ranking places the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfredo Wildpret De La Torre
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Victoria Eugenia Martín Osorio
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Iglesia De San Marcos
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