Mogán is a town and a Spanish municipality in the southwestern part of the island of

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, which is one of the three main islands making up the

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in the

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, Spain. Its population is (2013),Instituto Canario de Estadística
, population and the area is 172.44 km².

Geography

Mogán is the second largest

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

by area on the island. It includes the fishing towns of

Puerto de Mogán Puerto de Mogán is a picturesque fishing village and popular marina in the municipality of Mogán, set at the mouth of a steep-sided valley on the south-west coast of the island of Gran Canaria. Canal Canals or artificial waterway ...

and

Arguineguín Arguineguín (Guanche for "quiet water") is one of the most populated towns along the south coast of Gran Canaria, Spain. A typical Canarian fishing village, it is home to many locals rather than being a tourist resort. In 2015 it had 2517 inha ...

. Much of the population lives on the Atlantic coastline. The town of Mogán is about 8 kilometres from the coast, 11 km north of

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and 40 km south-west of

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. The GC-1 motorway passes through the south of the municipality. There is a string of tourist resorts along the coast. The main settlements are: *

* Cornisa del Suroeste * Mogán * Playa de Mogán *

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Image:PuertoDeMoganGC.jpg, Puerto de Mogan,

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palms. Image:Puerto de mogan.jpg, Puerto de Mogan, a resort and fishing village.

Population

Heritage sites

Archaeology

Three sites on the municipality grounds are listed

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in the "archaeological zone" category: :The Cats' ravine (''cañada de los Gatos'' or ''Lomo los Gatos'') is located at the mouth of the Mogan ravine that opens onto Mogan beach.Lomo Los Gatos
on ''grancanariapatrimonio.com''.This uTube video
shows the Mogan's ravine (1'02 - 1'11) where the Cat's' ravine archaeological site is located. :The valley of the Sea (''cañada de la Mar'') was also declared

as archaeological zone, in 2005. :Veneguera's "''Cogolla''" (''La Cogolla de Veneguera'') is in the upper part of the Veneguera ravine in the north-west of the municipality.

Ethnology

Mogan's windmill ("''molino quemado de Mogán''" is listed since 2002 as Heritage site in the category "ethnological site".. File:Barr de Mogan Pie de la Cuesta kz1.JPG, Mogan ravine File:SP-GC-mogan-casas-de-veneguera.jpg, Veneguera File:SP-GC-mogan-windmuehle.jpg,

Geography

Population

Heritage sites

Archaeology

Ethnology

See also

Notes and references

Notes

References

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