Canary Islands

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Canary Island

Named after the Canary Islands in the name of the famous canaries with twitters and beautiful birds native to the Canary Islands Canary island is characterized by agriculture and economy depends entirely upon as well as the economy is based on fishing and tourism to enjoy pictures of the Canary Islands. 

 
In a visit to the Canary touch of nature on the pristine nature of the mountains and wide swathes of greenery and natural mixing between the blue sky and the blue sea water as touch and also into exclamation startled industrial citadels made ​​on the sand that exceeded the fixed iron factories strength and stability.

Hardly an inch of empty beaches of the Canary Islands from the exploitation of a tourist but not optimal scarcely an exaggeration to say that the hand of loving extended to dig a place for tourism in the mountains after narrowed spas dreamy beaches.

In the Canary Islands, and if your car or walk roaming the islands compete with each other to win your Aqtnask and each island offers you the most precious thing you possess to be a guest on the front page.

Gifts Canary Islands water and air and the sun of the Canary Feltqubl her gift they are not of the kind that we see always, but very different

The islands are also competing in the establishment of restaurants and lounges and recreational facilities to be the interface reception you if you come to it.

Another aspect may seem harsh, but it feature a prominent tourist target among visitors and are eager to see the effects that did not enjoy his vision is originally only and are volcanoes Valbrkin harsh paved for visitors to the Canary Acer and easiest way and made ​​them quiet passages to Echtrkoha walk on their feet - yes volcanoes harsh Zukrna , but in a quiet Canary deposit respected visitors and contribute to the promotion of tourism Canary commodity which is no more than the nature of the charming and bright sun and fresh air and fresh water


Canary Islands are a Spanish group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, located north-west of Western Sahara. A unit of a sovereign within the Spanish crown.


Divided into two districts Canary Islands:

Las Palmas (eastern islands) and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (the Western Isles). The archipelago consists of (or a group of these islands) of seven major islands (in addition to some small islands abandoned): Tenerife, Vuorteventura, Grand Canary, Lanzarote, La Palma, Gomera and Hierro.

These islands are volcanic in nature, hedged sloping beaches with rugged terrain composed of volcanic peaks and Deztiat. The highest peak in the archipelago, but in Spain, is the peak of Ted (3718 m) in Tenerife.

Climate is nice, and the differences do not remember because of the thermal effect of the ocean. As the humidity is high, but in Lanzarote and Vuorteventura. And most of the rain falls in the winter. And affected the southern shores of the Canary major Tinerv African dry winds. Even areas at an altitude lower than 400 m live plants, especially the northern regions of Africa. Including: palms, figs and cactus and laurel and eucalyptus. As the capital of these islands are independent, they are, alternately, Las Palmas in Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz in Tenerife.

The total area of ​​the islands 7273 square kilometers and a population (1991) 1,601,812 inhabitants


Economy

The economy of the islands is based on agriculture, fishing and tourism. The land is very fertile volcanic. And added to the cultivation of living, thanks to the ancient irrigation commercial crops for export. The most important agricultural sources are fruits (banana, citrus, peaches, figs, grapes) and vegetables (tomatoes, onions, potatoes) and sugar cane, grain and exported most of the production to Spain and the countries of the European Union.


The Alaakecma and the food industry the basis of the industrial sector. And benefit the ports of Las Palmas and Santa Cruz from its role as a stopover for ships. Tourism is a very important resource, as is the Canary Islands tourist destinations featured in summer and winter. The fact that the islands an ideal place to observe astronomy, held control center at an altitude of 2432 meters on the island of La Palma, and contains the most important observatories in the world.


Grand Canary Island

Grand Canary Island is located in the Canary Islands group, and covers an area of ​​1532 km 2 of ground volcanic. It rises from deep sea up to five thousand meters under the water to the water level, the highest peak, the summit of Pico de Las Neuve, any snow on top of high 1949.

Changed the parameters of the Canary Islands over the years thanks to the forces of nature and human action, turning the island into a form variety of landscapes, with a few similarities between the various points of the terrain. From here, we find several environmental systems and topography of steep slopes and valleys of origin.

People did not begin roads on the island of Gran Canaria, but at the end of the nineteenth century. Before that was split between a series of trails and roads that link between the actors and the most important places in the island. Currently, there are 307 km away from the "royal roads" that converge at the intersection of de la Cruz Tejida (Cross Tejida) at which point you then meet most of the roads.

This network has been established in this manner so that a passenger can walk on his feet to enjoy the beauty of the island of Gran Canaria.


Las Palmas

The capital of Gran Canaria

Area: 100.55 km 2

Population: 373.772 inhabitants.

Las Palmas is the capital of the island of Gran Canaria, one of the 21 municipalities that are the island.

Discovered in the city June 24, 1478 Juan Ryun, who finished in the history of this island of Gran Canaria. He ended Pedro de Vera, Juan Khalifa Ryon resistance in the Lancet in April 29, 1483 and brought the occupation to its final stages.

And Las Palmas is the city first discovered by Alakectaliwn in the Atlantic Ocean, where Christopher Columbus spent some time before he begins his travels exploratory Island Agomira.

The first concentration camp in the city was Juan Ryon military on the right side Barranco de Ganegada, which is currently the Church of St. Anthony of Padova. These form the Church and the Casa de Colón near them, one of the most beautiful places in the area Vegeta.

And Casa de Colon is the headquarters built by the authorities have formal status, which he presented his papers Christopher Columbus in 1492, while stopped at the island to repair a malfunction in one of his ships before setting off to the "New World." This is a monument headquarters today geometrically distinct, is called "Casa de Colón" any residence of the governor or "Columbus House" Colombosc any home.

1952 turned this place into a museum under the supervision of "Cabildo Insular" any local government Gran Canaria.

This museum includes four sections:

1 pre-Columbian America: It contains paintings provide information about the people and cultures in pre-Columbian America.

2 Columbus and his travels: the ambitious push peoples to search for new ways to trade, down to Columbus and his travels beyond the Atlantic and connected to the new world.

3 Canary Islands as a starting point and basic rule about the new world:

It is not accidental advent of Christopher Columbus to the Canary Islands, as the island's location in the same pull toward one's Migratory Gharba.hzh islands were not just a stage stop for a break in the way of travelers to India, but a market for goods and a source of migration. And already settled a lot of families that were living on the islands in the New World, prompting the label to the islands as the "maker of peoples