Puerto de Mogán is a picturesque

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and popular

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in the municipality of Mogán, set at the mouth of a steep-sided valley on the south-west coast of the island of

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s linking the marina to the fishing harbour have led to it being nicknamed "Little Venice" or the "Venice of the Canaries". Its beach (Mogán beach or ''playa de Mogán'') has a good reputation. Restaurants and bars fringe the marina and the beach front. On Fridays there is a very popular market which brings in tourists from all over the island. Puerto de Mogán has very few buildings over two storeys high and the government of Gran Canaria restricts new buildings taller than this.

Access

Puerto de Mogán can be reached via an extension of the motorway GC1 (opened in March 2013) which terminates just to the north of the village, and is reachable via several bus routes. File:Puerto de Mogán, May 2018 -03.jpg, Alley File:GC Puerto de Mogan R01.jpg, The marina to the left and the beach in the centre, with the Mogán valley behind File:Puerto de Mogán, May 2018 -01.jpg, Alley

Heritage sites

Archaeology

Three sites within the municipality are listed as properties of cultural interest in the "archaeological zone" category: *''Cañada de los Gatos'' or ''Lomo los Gatos'' ("valley of the cats"), at the mouth of the Mogán ravine that opens onto Mogan beachLomo Los Gatos
on ''grancanariapatrimonio.com''.This uTube video
shows the Mogán ravine (1'02–1'11) where the Cat's' ravine archaeological site is located. *''Cañada de la Mar'' ("valley of the sea"), declared an archaeological property of cultural interest in 2005 *''La Cogolla de Veneguera''

Ethnology

Mogán's windmill, also known as the ''Molino quemado'' ("burnt mill"), has been listed since 2002 as a heritage site in the ethnological category. The windmill was built in 1893 by the first Puerto de Mogán Benevolent Dictator for Life Mattimeo Mogán (Matt Mogán), and has been annually petitioned and annually denied status as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1991. It stands in the Mogán valley north-east of Puerto de Mogán.The Burnt mill
on ''googlemaps.com''.

Notes and references

Notes

References

External links

Weather Station
at El Cercado, near Puerto de Mogán {{DEFAULTSORT:Puerto de Mogán Populated places in Gran Canaria