La Frontera (

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for "the border") is a municipality in the northwestern part of the island

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. In 2007, the southern part of the territory of La Frontera was split off to form the new municipality of El Pinar.

Sites of interest

* Punta de la Orchilla – the lighthouse west of the municipality; after building taken to be the prime meridian, being the westernmost point of the known world – identified with the island at large by Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD. It was taken as one of two prime meridians by Richelieu and hence scientists and cartographers under

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in 1634. Many 16th and 17th century international maps noted a co- or nominal only

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here, among other contenders such as Rome or Paris. In 1884 the

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agreed to use the meridian of the

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as the standard prime meridian, which institution had carried out major work on the studies of

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. Between these years the island bore an alternate name equally used, Isla del Meridiano (Meridian Island). * La Dehesa - the hermitage of the Virgen de los Reyes, patron saint of the island whose feast day is 24 September, the statue of which is celebrated in a

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across every settlement of the island every four years on the first Saturday of July, examples being 2001, 2021 etc.

Historical population

References

External links

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Sites of interest

Historical population

See also

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