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Tejeda
Tejeda is a village and a municipality in the mountainous central part of the island of Gran Canaria in the province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. Location The village of Tejeda is situated north-west of the Pico de las Nieves and south-west of the island capital Las Palmas. Geography The municipality's area is , spreading near the centre of the island, on the latter's west side. The south-eastern part of its territory includes the second highest point of Gran Canaria island, '' Pico de las Nieves'' ("Snows Peak") - . Other remarkable summits in the municipality are '' Roque Nublo'' ("Cloud Rock") and '' Roque Bentayga'' ("Bentayga Rock") with its ritual place (''almogarén'') and other features. Close by are the '' cuevas del Rey'' ("the King's caves", 1 km to the west of Rock Bentayga), an antique cave house village with granaries; and 2 km further west the antique cave house village of ''Acusa Seca''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tejeda - Gran Canaria
Tejeda is a village and a municipality in the mountainous central part of the island of Gran Canaria in the province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. Location The village of Tejeda is situated north-west of the Pico de las Nieves and south-west of the island capital Las Palmas. Geography The municipality's area is , spreading near the centre of the island, on the latter's west side. The south-eastern part of its territory includes the second highest point of Gran Canaria island, ''Pico de las Nieves'' ("Snows Peak") - . Other remarkable summits in the municipality are ''Roque Nublo'' ("Cloud Rock") and '' Roque Bentayga'' ("Bentayga Rock") with its ritual place (''almogarén'') and other features. Close by are the '' cuevas del Rey'' ("the King's caves", 1 km to the west of Rock Bentayga), an antique cave house village with granaries; and 2 km further west the antique cave house village of ''Acusa Seca''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roque Bentayga
Roque Bentayga is a rock formation on the island of Gran Canaria ( Canary Islands, Spain). It is located within the volcanic caldera of Tejeda, in the municipality of the same name, in the heart of the island. Roque Bentayga is considered an archaeological monument because it contains an "almogarén" (a sanctuary built by the indigenous Guanche people). Characteristics Roque Bentayga is a natural rock pinnacle. Its height is 1,414 metres (4,639 ft) above sea level. The Roque is located within the . Archaeology Near Roque Bentayga are the old Canarian aboriginal settlements of Cuevas del Rey and Roque Camello, which consist of a hundred caves with rooms, burials, silos, etc. On the eastern side of the base of the roque is the so-called "almogarén del Bentayga", a construction that must have been a place of worship for the aborigines. A stone wall that runs along the base of the rock on its east and south sides could delimit the sacred space, although other sources poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bentayga Rock
The Bentley Bentayga is a mid-size luxury crossover SUV produced by Bentley Motors since late 2015. It is the first SUV to be produced by the brand. Its body is manufactured at the Volkswagen Zwickau-Mosel Plant in Germany, then painted by Paintbox Editions in Banbury, United Kingdom, with final assembly being at Bentley Motor's factory in Crewe, United Kingdom. Concept car Bentley's first SUV was previewed as the Bentley EXP 9 F concept car at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. The concept car was based upon the Volkswagen Group MLB platform, powered by a 6.0 L W12 engine producing . The initial design of the EXP 9 F was redesigned to achieve "more traditional SUV proportions and less retro surfacing." The production version was announced in July 2013. The Bentley EXP 9 F's design proved to be controversial, and it received a mixed response from the automobile press. After some criticism for the design of the EXP 9 F, Bentley announced that it would change the styling fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Aldea De San Nicolás
La Aldea de San Nicolás is the westernmost municipality of the island of Gran Canaria in the Las Palmas province of the Canary Islands. Its full name was, until 2005, Announcement of the name change (In Spanish) La Aldea de San Nicolás de Tolentino, and the locals simply call it ''La Aldea''. Its population is 8,228 (2013),Instituto Canario de Estadística , population and the area is 123.58 km2. Its elevation is about 33m. La Aldea de San Nicolás is located about 38 km southwest of the island capital |
Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa which is part of Spain. the island had a population of that constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the capital of the island, is the biggest city of the Canary Islands and the ninth of Spain. Gran Canaria is located in the Atlantic Ocean in a region known as Macaronesia about off the northwestern coast of Africa and about from Europe. With an area of km2 ( sq. mi) and an altitude of at Morro de la Agujereada, Gran Canaria is the third largest island of the archipelago in both area and altitude. Gran Canaria is also the third most populated island in Spain. History In antiquity, Gran Canaria was populated by the North African Canarii, who may have arrived as early as 500 BC. In the medieval period, after over a century of European incur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valleseco, Las Palmas
Valleseco is a town and a municipality of Las Palmas province, on the Canary Islands. It is in the northcentral part of Gran Canaria. Valleseco means "dry valley" in Spanish, but is actually one of the wettest municipalities of the island. Its population is 3,904 (2013),Instituto Canario de Estadística population and the area is 22.11 km². The elevation is 1,000 m. The town Valleseco is situated 3 km southwest of Teror and 17 km southwest of the city of . Its landscape is characterized by deep valleys and ravines and a great veget ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roque Nublo
Roque Nublo (''Clouded Rock'', ''Rock in the Clouds'') is a volcanic rock on the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. It is tall, and its top is above sea level. The Roque Nublo is the third altitude of the island of Gran Canaria, after the Morro de la Agujereada with 1,956 meters, and the Pico de las Nieves with 1,949 meters. It was formed by a volcanic eruption around 4.5 million years ago. Location Roque Nublo is located within the , a rural park in the municipality Tejeda Tejeda is a village and a municipality in the mountainous central part of the island of Gran Canaria in the province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. Location The village of Tejeda is situated north-west of the Pico de las Nieves and s ..., in the geographical centre of Gran Canaria. Next to the Roque Nublo are other unique rock formations, such as the so-called ''Roque del Fraile'' and ''La Rana'' . References External links * Landforms of Gran Canaria Mountains of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artenara, Las Palmas
Artenara is a village and a Spanish municipality in the western part of the island of Gran Canaria in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands. The village of Artenara is situated in the mountains, south-west of Las Palmas. Its population is (2013),Instituto Canario de Estadística population and the area is . Artenara is the smallest municipality of Gran Canaria in population. Population See also *List of municipalities in Las Palmas
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Pico De Las Nieves
Pico de las Nieves is the second highest peak on the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Its height is above sea level. It is of volcanic origin ( stratovolcano). On its slopes, Canary Islands Pine was reintroduced in the 1950s. Traditionally, Pico de las Nieves has been considered the highest peak on the island of Gran Canaria; however, this is uncertain since Morro de la Agujereada stands at , which would make it higher than Pico de las Nieves. The two mountains stand next to each other. Gran Canaria has the highest elevation of the province of Las Palmas and the third highest in the Canary Islands. Of the other Canary Islands, only Tenerife and La Palma have higher peaks. Name The name means 'peak of the snows' in Spanish and refers to the fact that several covered pits (neveras in Spanish) for holding snow were built directly into the mountainsides. (An alternative theory states that the name came about as the mountain had the highest frequency of snowfall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vega De San Mateo
Vega de San Mateo is a town and a municipality in the mountainous central part of the island of Gran Canaria in the Province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. Its population is 7,774 (2013),Instituto Canario de Estadística population and the area is 37.89 km². Vega de San Mateo is located 17 km southwest of Las Palmas. Historical population See also *List of municipalities in Las PalmasReferences External links (town) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Bartolomé De Tirajana
San Bartolomé de Tirajana is a village and a Spanish municipality in the south-eastern part of the island of Gran Canaria in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands. With an area of , San Bartolomé de Tirajana is the largest municipality in area on the island as well as the Canary Islands. The population is (2013).Instituto Canario de Estadística , population The municipality contains the large beach resorts of , including and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignimbrite
Ignimbrite is a type of volcanic rock, consisting of hardened tuff. Ignimbrites form from the deposits of pyroclastic flows, which are a hot suspension of particles and gases flowing rapidly from a volcano, driven by being denser than the surrounding atmosphere. New Zealand geologist Patrick Marshall (1869-1950) coined the term ''ignimbrite'' from the Latin ''igni-'' [fire] and ''imbri-'' [rain]. Ignimbrites are made of a very poorly sorted mixture of volcanic ash (or tuff when Lithification, lithified) and pumice lapilli, commonly with scattered lithic fragments. The ash is composed of glass shards and crystal fragments. Ignimbrites may be loose and unconsolidated, or lithified (solidified) rock called lapilli-tuff. Near the volcanic source, ignimbrites often contain thick accumulations of lithic blocks, and distally, many show meter-thick accumulations of rounded cobbles of pumice. Ignimbrites may be white, grey, pink, beige, brown, or black depending on their composition and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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