San Andrés y Sauces is a municipality on the island of
La Palma
La Palma (, ), also known as ''La isla bonita'' () and officially San Miguel de La Palma, is the most north-westerly island of the Canary Islands, Spain. La Palma has an area of making it the fifth largest of the eight main Canary Islands. The ...
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Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, also Province of Santa Cruz ( es, link=no, Provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife), is a province of Spain, consisting of the western part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. It consists of abo ...
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Canary Islands, Spain. It is situated in the northeastern part of the island. The population of the municipality is 4,473 (2013)
[Instituto Canario de Estadística]
, population and the area is 42.75 km².
[ The elevation of the largest village Los Sauces is 250 m. Los Sauces is 14 km north of the island capital ]Santa Cruz de La Palma
Santa Cruz de la Palma (Spanish for ''Holy Cross of La Palma'') is a city and a municipality on the east coast of the island of La Palma in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife of the Canary Islands. Santa Cruz de la Palma is the second-large ...
. The municipality takes its name from the villages Los Sauces (the seat of the municipality) and San Andrés, 1.5 km southeast of Los Sauces, at the coast.
Economy
The main crops are bananas and the root vegetable taro
Taro () (''Colocasia esculenta)'' is a root vegetable. It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, and petioles. Taro corms are a food staple in Afri ...
(''Colocasia esculenta''), locally called ''ñame''. A minor crop is sugar cane, which serves for the only distillery in the land that manufactures ''Ron Aldea'', a rum
Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. The distillate, a clear liquid, is usually aged in oak barrels. Rum is produced in nearly every sugar-producing region of the world, such as the Ph ...
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Points of interest
*the laurel forest of Los Tilos
*traditional architecture, mainly in San Andrés
*''Puerto Spíndola'', a small fishing port
* Cuevas de los Murciélagos, volcanic caves that are home to several bat species. Interesting fossils were found in the 1980s.
Historical population
Gallery
Image:Typical view Village La Palma.jpg, San Andrés
Image:Forest Los Tilos La Palma.jpg, Los Tilos
Image:Forest Los Tilos.jpg, Los Tilos
Image:La palma-los tilos.jpg, Barranco de la Fuente
Image:Brücke von Los Tilos.jpg
See also
*List of municipalities in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
This is a list of the 54 municipalities in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands, Spain - 31 on Tenerife Island, 14 on La Palma Island, 6 on La Gomera Island and 3 on El Hierro Island.
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References
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Municipalities in La Palma