San Andrés y Sauces is a municipality on the island of

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, 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. 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

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(''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 often aged in barrels of oak. Rum originated in the Caribbean in the 17th century, but today it is produced i ...

Points of interest

*The

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of Los Tilos *Traditional architecture, mainly in San Andrés *''Puerto Espíndola'', 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

Sports

Los Sauces Sports Center

The municipality offers the following facilities for sports practice: - Municipal Sports Pavilion, with a capacity of approximately 1300 people. It includes a gym and annexes. - Municipal Football Field of Llano Clara, with artificial turf and a capacity of approximately 2000 people. - Municipal padel courts; three courts in Las Lomadas. - Municipal Sports Center of Los Galguitos. - Municipal Sports Center of San Andrés. - Beach Volleyball Court in Puerto Espíndola.

Sports clubs in the municipality

- Unión Deportiva San Andrés y Sauces, a football team competing in the men's Primera Regional. - La Escuela de Fútbol La Unión, together with Barlovento and Puntallana. - Club Baloncesto Sauces, a basketball team from Los Sauces. - Club de Gimnasia Rítmica Adeyahamen – Nogales, together with Puntallana. - Club de Lucha Bediesta, specializing in Canarian wrestling. - Club de Pádel Los Tilos (part of the Canary Islands Padel Federation).

Gallery

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References

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