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<div id="mw-head-base" class="noprint"></div> <div id="content" class="mw-body" role="main"> <a id="top"></a> <div id="siteNotice"></div> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en">Canary Islands</h1> <div id="bodyContent" class="mw-body-content"> <div id="siteSub">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> <div id="contentSub"><span class="mw-redirectedfrom"> (Redirected from <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telecommunications_in_the_Canary_Islands&redirect=no" title="Telecommunications in the Canary Islands">Telecommunications in the Canary Islands</a>)</span></div> <div id="jump-to-nav" class="mw-jump"> Jump to: <a href="#mw-head">navigation</a>, <a href="#p-search">search</a> </div> <div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><table class="infobox geography vcard" style="width:22em;width:23em"> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:center;font-size:125%;font-weight:bold;font-size:1.25em; white-space:nowrap"><span class="fn org">Canary Islands<br/> <small><span lang="es" xml:lang="es"><i>Islas Canarias</i></span> <span class="languageicon" style="font-size:0.95em; font-weight:bold; color:#555;">(Spanish)</span></small></span></th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;background-color:#cddeff; font-weight:bold;"><span class="category"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_communities_of_Spain" title="Autonomous communities of Spain">Autonomous community</a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;padding:0.7em 0.8em"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orotavatal.jpg" class="image" title="Mount Teide on Tenerife, the highest mountain in Spain, is also one of the most visited National Parks in the world.[1][2][3][4]"><img alt="Mount Teide on Tenerife, the highest mountain in Spain, is also one of the most visited National Parks in the world.[1][2][3][4]" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Orotavatal.jpg/275px-Orotavatal.jpg" width="275" height="96" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Orotavatal.jpg/413px-Orotavatal.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Orotavatal.jpg/550px-Orotavatal.jpg 2x" data-file-width="901" data-file-height="313"/></a> <div>Mount <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide" title="Teide">Teide</a> on <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife" title="Tenerife">Tenerife</a>, the highest mountain in Spain, is also one of the most visited <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Park" title="National Park" class="mw-redirect">National Parks</a> in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-diariodeavisos.com_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-diariodeavisos.com-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sanborondon.info_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sanborondon.info-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup></div> </td> </tr> <tr class="mergedtoprow"> <td colspan="2" class="maptable" style="text-align:center"> <table style="width:100%; background:none;"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg" class="image" title="Flag of Canary IslandsIslas Canarias (Spanish)"><img alt="Flag of Canary Islands" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Flag_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg/150px-Flag_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg.png" width="150" height="100" class="thumbborder" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Flag_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg/225px-Flag_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Flag_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg/300px-Flag_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500"/></a><br/> <small><b><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canary_Islands" title="Flag of Canary Islands" class="mw-redirect">Flag</a></b></small></td> <td style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg" class="image" title="Coat of arms of Canary IslandsIslas Canarias (Spanish)"><img alt="Canary Islands CoA.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg/100px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg.png" width="100" height="78" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg/150px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg/200px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1599" data-file-height="1243"/></a><br/> <small><b><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Canary_Islands" title="Coat of arms of Canary Islands">Coat of arms</a></b></small></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Localizaci%C3%B3n_de_la_Regi%C3%B3n_de_Canarias.svg" class="image" title="Location of Canary Islands in Spain"><img alt="Location of Canary Islands in Spain" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Localizaci%C3%B3n_de_la_Regi%C3%B3n_de_Canarias.svg/250px-Localizaci%C3%B3n_de_la_Regi%C3%B3n_de_Canarias.svg.png" width="250" height="233" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Localizaci%C3%B3n_de_la_Regi%C3%B3n_de_Canarias.svg/375px-Localizaci%C3%B3n_de_la_Regi%C3%B3n_de_Canarias.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Localizaci%C3%B3n_de_la_Regi%C3%B3n_de_Canarias.svg/500px-Localizaci%C3%B3n_de_la_Regi%C3%B3n_de_Canarias.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="799" data-file-height="745"/></a><br/> <small>Location of Canary Islands in Spain</small></td> </tr> <tr class="mergedbottomrow"> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center">Coordinates: <span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Canary_Islands&params=28_06_N_15_24_W_type:city(2117519)_region:ES"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">28°06′N</span> <span class="longitude">15°24′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">28.100°N 15.400°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">28.100; -15.400</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="coordinates"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a>: <span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Canary_Islands&params=28_06_N_15_24_W_type:city(2117519)_region:ES"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">28°06′N</span> <span class="longitude">15°24′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">28.100°N 15.400°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">28.100; -15.400</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></td> </tr> <tr class="mergedtoprow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Country</th> <td><span class="flagicon"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" width="23" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500"/> </span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a></td> </tr> <tr class="mergedtoprow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Capital</th> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Palmas_de_Gran_Canaria" title="Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" class="mw-redirect">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup></td> </tr> <tr class="mergedtoprow"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:center;text-align:left">Government</th> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"> • <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="President of the Canary Islands">President</a></th> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulino_Rivero" title="Paulino Rivero">Paulino Rivero</a> ((<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalici%C3%B3n_Canaria" title="Coalición Canaria" class="mw-redirect">CC</a>))</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"> • Vice President</th> <td>José Miguel Pérez García</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedtoprow"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:center;text-align:left">Area</th> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"> • Total</th> <td>7,493 km<sup>2</sup> (2,893 sq mi)</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Area rank</th> <td>1.5% of Spain; <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spanish_autonomous_communities_by_area" title="List of Spanish autonomous communities by area" class="mw-redirect">Ranked 13th</a></td> </tr> <tr class="mergedtoprow"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:center;text-align:left">Population <span style="font-weight:normal">(2011)<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup></span></th> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"> • Total</th> <td>2,117,519</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"> • Density</th> <td>280/km<sup>2</sup> (730/sq mi)</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"> • <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spanish_autonomous_communities_by_population" title="List of Spanish autonomous communities by population" class="mw-redirect">Pop. rank</a></th> <td>8th</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"> • <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups" title="Ethnic groups" class="mw-redirect">Ethnic groups</a></th> <td>85.7% <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_people" title="Spanish people">Spanish</a>, including <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_people" title="Canarian people">Canarian people</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsulares" title="Peninsulares" class="mw-redirect">Peninsulares</a>. 14.3% foreign nationals, mainly <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Americans" title="Latin Americans">Latin American</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_people" title="British people">British</a>, and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccans" title="Moroccans" class="mw-redirect">Moroccan</a>.</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedtoprow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym</a></th> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_people" title="Canarian people">Canarian</a></td> </tr> <tr class="mergedtoprow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_Time" title="Western European Time">WET</a> (<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC0" title="UTC0" class="mw-redirect">UTC0</a>)</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_Summer_Time" title="Western European Summer Time">WEST</a> (<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B1" title="UTC+1" class="mw-redirect">UTC+1</a>)</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th> <td class="nickname">IC (<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#IC" title="ISO 3166-1 alpha-2">reserved</a>)</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedtoprow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem" title="Anthem">Anthem</a></th> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrorr%C3%B3" title="Arrorró">Hymn of the Canaries</a></td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_language" title="Official language">Official language</a>(s)</th> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_Spanish" title="Canarian Spanish">Spanish</a></td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Statute of Autonomy</th> <td>16 August 1982</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedtoprow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Parliament</th> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortes_Generales" title="Cortes Generales">Cortes Generales</a></td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Deputies_(Spain)" title="Congress of Deputies (Spain)">Congress seats</a></th> <td>15 (of 350)</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Senate" title="Spanish Senate" class="mw-redirect">Senate seats</a></th> <td>13 (of 264)</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedtoprow"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Website</th> <td><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/http://www.gobiernodecanarias.org/">Gobierno de Canarias</a></b></td> </tr> </table> <div class="noviewer thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px"> <div style="position:relative;width:300px;border:1px solid lightgray"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantic_Ocean_laea_location_map.svg" class="image" title="Canary Islands is located in Atlantic Ocean"><img alt="Canary Islands is located in Atlantic Ocean" 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src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Cercle_rouge_100%25.svg/20px-Cercle_rouge_100%25.svg.png" title="Canary Islands" width="20" height="20" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Cercle_rouge_100%25.svg/30px-Cercle_rouge_100%25.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Cercle_rouge_100%25.svg/40px-Cercle_rouge_100%25.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200"/></div> <div style="font-size:90%;line-height:110%;position:absolute;width:6em;top:-0.75em;right:11px;text-align:right"><span style="padding:1px;float:right">Canary Islands</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantic_Ocean_laea_location_map.svg" title="File:Atlantic Ocean laea location map.svg"></a></div> Location of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean</div> </div> </div> <p>The <b>Canary Islands</b> (<span class="nowrap"><small>English</small> <span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/</a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="'k' in 'kind'" style="border-bottom:1px dotted">k</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="/ə/ 'a' in 'about'" style="border-bottom:1px dotted">ə</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows" style="border-bottom:1px dotted">ˈ</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="'n' in 'nigh'" style="border-bottom:1px dotted">n</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="/ɛər/ 'are' in 'bare'" style="border-bottom:1px dotted">ɛər</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="/i/ 'y' in 'happy'" style="border-bottom:1px dotted">i</span></a></span> <span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows" style="border-bottom:1px dotted">ˈ</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="/aɪ/ long 'i' in 'bide'" style="border-bottom:1px dotted">aɪ</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="'l' in 'lie'" style="border-bottom:1px dotted">l</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="/ə/ 'a' in 'about'" style="border-bottom:1px dotted">ə</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="'n' in 'nigh'" style="border-bottom:1px dotted">n</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="'d' in 'dye'" style="border-bottom:1px dotted">d</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="'z' in 'Zion'" style="border-bottom:1px dotted">z</span></a></span><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/</a></span></span>; <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>: <span lang="es" xml:lang="es"><i>Islas Canarias</i></span> <span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Spanish" title="Help:IPA for Spanish">[ˈizlas kaˈnaɾjas]</a></span>, <small>locally: </small><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Spanish" title="Help:IPA for Spanish">[ˈiɦlah kaˈnaɾjah]</a></span>), also known as <i>the Canaries</i> (<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>: <span lang="es" xml:lang="es"><i>Canarias</i></span>), are a <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spanish</a> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archipelago" title="Archipelago">archipelago</a> located just off the southern coast of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a>, 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of its southern border. The Canaries constitute one of Spain's 17 <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_communities_of_Spain" title="Autonomous communities of Spain">autonomous communities</a> and are among the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Member_State_territories_and_the_European_Union#Outermost_regions" title="Special Member State territories and the European Union" class="mw-redirect">outermost regions</a> of the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> proper. The main islands are (from largest to smallest) <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife" title="Tenerife">Tenerife</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuerteventura" title="Fuerteventura">Fuerteventura</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Canaria" title="Gran Canaria">Gran Canaria</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanzarote" title="Lanzarote">Lanzarote</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Palma" title="La Palma">La Palma</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Gomera" title="La Gomera">La Gomera</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hierro" title="El Hierro">El Hierro</a>. The archipelago also includes a number of islets: <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Graciosa" title="La Graciosa" class="mw-redirect">La Graciosa</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alegranza" title="Alegranza">Alegranza</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islote_de_Lobos" title="Islote de Lobos" class="mw-redirect">Isla de Lobos</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monta%C3%B1a_Clara" title="Montaña Clara">Montaña Clara</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_del_Oeste" title="Roque del Oeste">Roque del Oeste</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_del_Este" title="Roque del Este">Roque del Este</a>.</p> <p>The archipelago's beaches, climate and important natural attractions, especially <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maspalomas" title="Maspalomas">Maspalomas</a> in <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Canaria" title="Gran Canaria">Gran Canaria</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide_National_Park" title="Teide National Park">Teide National Park</a> and Mount <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide" title="Teide">Teide</a> (a World Heritage Site) in <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife" title="Tenerife">Tenerife</a> (the third tallest volcano in the world measured from its base on the ocean floor), make it a major tourist destination with over 12 million visitors per year, especially Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote.<sup id="cite_ref-gobiernodecanarias1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gobiernodecanarias1-7"><span>[</span>7<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-webtenerife1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-webtenerife1-8"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a></sup> The islands have a <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtropical_climate" title="Subtropical climate" class="mw-redirect">subtropical climate</a>, with long warm summers and moderately warm winters.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a></sup> Due to their location above the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_(meteorology)" title="Inversion (meteorology)">temperature inversion</a> layer, the high mountains of these islands are ideal for astronomical observation. For this reason, two professional observatories, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide_Observatory" title="Teide Observatory">Teide Observatory</a> on the island of Tenerife and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_de_los_Muchachos_Observatory" title="Roque de los Muchachos Observatory">Roque de los Muchachos Observatory</a> on the island of La Palma, have been built on the islands.</p> <p>The capital of the Autonomous Community is shared by the cities of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Palmas_de_Gran_Canaria" title="Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" class="mw-redirect">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-es.wikisource.org_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-es.wikisource.org-10"><span>[</span>10<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gobiernodecanarias.org_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gobiernodecanarias.org-11"><span>[</span>11<span>]</span></a></sup> which in turn are the capitals of the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_provinces" title="Spanish provinces" class="mw-redirect">provinces</a> of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_(province)" title="Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province)" class="mw-redirect">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Las_Palmas" title="Province of Las Palmas">Province of Las Palmas</a>. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has been the largest city in the Canaries since 1768, except for a brief period in 1910.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span>[</span>12<span>]</span></a></sup> Between the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1833_territorial_division_of_Spain" title="1833 territorial division of Spain">1833 territorial division of Spain</a> and 1927 Santa Cruz de Tenerife was the sole capital of the Canary Islands. In 1927 a decree ordered that the capital of the Canary Islands be shared, as it remains at present.<sup id="cite_ref-Real_Decreto_wikisource_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Real_Decreto_wikisource-13"><span>[</span>13<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Real_Decreto_Canarias_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Real_Decreto_Canarias-14"><span>[</span>14<span>]</span></a></sup> The third largest city of the Canary Islands is <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Crist%C3%B3bal_de_La_Laguna" title="San Cristóbal de La Laguna">San Cristóbal de La Laguna</a> (a <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a>) on Tenerife.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span>[</span>15<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span>[</span>16<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span>[</span>17<span>]</span></a></sup> This city is also home to the <i>Consejo Consultivo de Canarias</i>, which is the supreme consultative body of the Canary Islands.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span>[</span>18<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>During the times of the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish Empire</a> the Canaries were the main stopover for <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_treasure_fleet" title="Spanish treasure fleet">Spanish galleons</a> on their way to the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas" title="Americas">Americas</a> because of the prevailing winds from the northeast.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p> <p></p> <div id="toc" class="toc"> <div id="toctitle"> <h2>Contents</h2> </div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Etymology"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Etymology</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Geography"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Geography</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Climate"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Climate</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Geology"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Geology</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Political_geography"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Political geography</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#History"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Ancient_and_pre-colonial_times"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Ancient and pre-colonial times</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Castilian_conquest"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Castilian conquest</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#After_the_conquest"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">After the conquest</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#18th_to_19th_century"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">18th to 19th century</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Romantic_period_and_scientific_expeditions"><span class="tocnumber">3.5</span> <span class="toctext">Romantic period and scientific expeditions</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Early_20th_century"><span class="tocnumber">3.6</span> <span class="toctext">Early 20th century</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#Franco_regime"><span class="tocnumber">3.7</span> <span class="toctext">Franco regime</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Self-governance"><span class="tocnumber">3.8</span> <span class="toctext">Self-governance</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#Demographics"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Demographics</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#Population_of_the_individual_islands"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Population of the individual islands</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Religion"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Religion</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Population_genetics"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">Population genetics</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="#Islands"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Islands</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#El_Hierro"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">El Hierro</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#Fuerteventura"><span class="tocnumber">5.2</span> <span class="toctext">Fuerteventura</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Gran_Canaria"><span class="tocnumber">5.3</span> <span class="toctext">Gran Canaria</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23"><a href="#La_Gomera"><span class="tocnumber">5.4</span> <span class="toctext">La Gomera</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24"><a href="#Lanzarote"><span class="tocnumber">5.5</span> <span class="toctext">Lanzarote</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-25"><a href="#Chinijo_Archipelago"><span class="tocnumber">5.5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Chinijo Archipelago</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26"><a href="#La_Palma"><span class="tocnumber">5.6</span> <span class="toctext">La Palma</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27"><a href="#Tenerife"><span class="tocnumber">5.7</span> <span class="toctext">Tenerife</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-28"><a href="#Data_of_islands"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Data of islands</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-29"><a href="#Economy"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Economy</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-30"><a href="#Transport"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Transport</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-31"><a href="#Rail_transport"><span class="tocnumber">8.1</span> <span class="toctext">Rail transport</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-32"><a href="#Airports"><span class="tocnumber">8.2</span> <span class="toctext">Airports</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-33"><a href="#Ports"><span class="tocnumber">8.3</span> <span class="toctext">Ports</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-34"><a href="#Wildlife"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Wildlife</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-35"><a href="#Terrestrial_wildlife"><span class="tocnumber">9.1</span> <span class="toctext">Terrestrial wildlife</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-36"><a href="#Marine_life"><span class="tocnumber">9.2</span> <span class="toctext">Marine life</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-37"><a href="#Native_flora_gallery"><span class="tocnumber">9.3</span> <span class="toctext">Native flora gallery</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-38"><a href="#National_parks_of_the_Canary_Islands"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">National parks of the Canary Islands</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-39"><a href="#Sports"><span class="tocnumber">11</span> <span class="toctext">Sports</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-40"><a href="#Notable_athletes"><span class="tocnumber">11.1</span> <span class="toctext">Notable athletes</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-41"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">12</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-42"><a href="#History_2"><span class="tocnumber">12.1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-43"><a href="#Geography_2"><span class="tocnumber">12.2</span> <span class="toctext">Geography</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-44"><a href="#Culture"><span class="tocnumber">12.3</span> <span class="toctext">Culture</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-45"><a href="#Carnival"><span class="tocnumber">13</span> <span class="toctext">Carnival</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-46"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">14</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-47"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">15</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-48"><a href="#Further_reading"><span class="tocnumber">16</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-49"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">17</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <p></p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Etymology">Etymology</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The name <i>Islas Canarias</i> is likely derived from the Latin name <i>Canariae Insulae</i>, meaning "Island of the Dogs", a name applied originally only to Gran Canaria. According to the historian <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny the Elder</a>, the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauretania" title="Mauretania">Mauretanian</a> king <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juba_II" title="Juba II">Juba II</a> named the island <i>Canaria</i> because it contained "vast multitudes of dogs of very large size".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span>[</span>19<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>Another speculation is that the so-called dogs were actually a species of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk_seal" title="Monk seal" class="mw-redirect">monk seal</a> (<i>canis marinus</i> or "sea dog" was a Latin term for 'seal'<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span>[</span>20<span>]</span></a></sup>), critically endangered and no longer present in the Canary Islands.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span>[</span>21<span>]</span></a></sup> The dense population of seals may have been the characteristic that most struck the few <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">ancient Romans</a> who established contact with these islands by sea.</p> <p>Alternatively, it is said that the original inhabitants of the island, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanches" title="Guanches">Guanches</a>, used to worship dogs, mummified them and treated dogs generally as holy animals.<sup id="cite_ref-10_facts_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10_facts-22"><span>[</span>22<span>]</span></a></sup> The ancient Greeks also knew about a people, living far to the west, who are the "dog-headed ones", who worshipped dogs on an island.<sup id="cite_ref-10_facts_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10_facts-22"><span>[</span>22<span>]</span></a></sup> Some hypothesize that the Canary Islands dog-worship and the ancient Egyptian cult of the dog-headed god, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis" title="Anubis">Anubis</a> are closely connected<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span>[</span>23<span>]</span></a></sup> but there is no explanation given as to which one was first.</p> <p>Other theories speculate that the name comes from a reported Berber tribe living in the Moroccan Atlas, named in Roman sources as <i>Canarii</i>, though Pliny again mentions the relation of this term with dogs.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p> <p>The connection to dogs is retained in their depiction on the islands' coat-of-arms (shown above).</p> <p>What is certain is that the name of the islands does not derive from the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_Canary" title="Domestic Canary" class="mw-redirect">canary bird</a>; rather, the birds are named after the islands.</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Geography">Geography</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Geography">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:452px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Map_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg/450px-Map_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg.png" width="450" height="200" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Map_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg/675px-Map_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Map_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg/900px-Map_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3152" data-file-height="1400"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_Canary_Islands.svg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Map of the Canary Islands</div> </div> </div> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:452px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hacha_grande_from_papagayo_pano.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Hacha_grande_from_papagayo_pano.jpg/450px-Hacha_grande_from_papagayo_pano.jpg" width="450" height="102" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Hacha_grande_from_papagayo_pano.jpg/675px-Hacha_grande_from_papagayo_pano.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Hacha_grande_from_papagayo_pano.jpg/900px-Hacha_grande_from_papagayo_pano.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="904"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hacha_grande_from_papagayo_pano.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacha_Grande" title="Hacha Grande">Hacha Grande</a>, a mountain in the south of Lanzarote, viewed from the road to the Playa de Papagayo.</div> </div> </div> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:452px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grancanaria.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Grancanaria.jpg/450px-Grancanaria.jpg" width="450" height="91" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Grancanaria.jpg/675px-Grancanaria.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Grancanaria.jpg/900px-Grancanaria.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7413" data-file-height="1500"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grancanaria.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Panoramic view of Gran Canaria, with <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_Nublo" title="Roque Nublo">Roque Nublo</a> at the left and Roque Bentayga at the center</div> </div> </div> <p><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife" title="Tenerife">Tenerife</a> is the most populous island, and also the largest island of the archipelago. <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Canaria" title="Gran Canaria">Gran Canaria</a>, with 865,070 inhabitants, is both the Canary Islands' second most populous island, and the third most populous one in Spain after <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorca" title="Majorca">Majorca</a>. The island of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuerteventura" title="Fuerteventura">Fuerteventura</a> is the second largest in the archipelago and located 100 km (60 mi) from the African coast.</p> <p>The islands form the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronesia" title="Macaronesia">Macaronesia</a> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoregion" title="Ecoregion">ecoregion</a> with the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azores" title="Azores">Azores</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde" title="Cape Verde">Cape Verde</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira_Islands" title="Madeira Islands" class="mw-redirect">Madeira</a>, and the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Isles" title="Savage Isles" class="mw-redirect">Savage Isles</a>. The archipelago consists of seven large and several smaller islands, all of which are volcanic in origin.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span>[</span>24<span>]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide" title="Teide">Teide</a> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano" title="Volcano">volcano</a> on Tenerife is the highest mountain in Spain, and the third tallest volcano on Earth on a volcanic ocean island. All the islands except La Gomera have been active in the last million years; four of them (Lanzarote, Tenerife, La Palma and El Hierro) have historical records of eruptions since European discovery. The islands rise from Jurassic <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_crust" title="Oceanic crust">oceanic crust</a> associated with the opening of the Atlantic. Underwater <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magmatism" title="Magmatism">magmatism</a> commenced during the Cretaceous, and reached the ocean's surface during the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miocene" title="Miocene">Miocene</a>. The islands are considered as a distinct physiographic section of the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Mountains" title="Atlas Mountains">Atlas Mountains</a> province, which in turn is part of the larger <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=African_Alpine_System&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="African Alpine System (page does not exist)">African Alpine System</a> division.</p> <p>In the summer of 2011 a series of low-magnitude earthquakes occurred beneath El Hierro. These had a linear trend of northeast-southwest. In October a submarine eruption occurred about 2 km (<span class="frac nowrap">1<span class="visualhide"> </span><sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>4</sub></span> mi) south of Restinga. This eruption produced gases and pumice but no explosive activity was reported.</p> <p>According to the position of the islands with respect to the north-east <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_wind" title="Trade wind">trade winds</a>, the climate can be mild and wet or very dry. Several native species form <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurisilva" title="Laurisilva" class="mw-redirect">laurisilva</a> forests.</p> <p>As a consequence, the individual islands in the canary archipelago tend to have distinct <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microclimate" title="Microclimate">microclimates</a>. Those islands such as <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hierro" title="El Hierro">El Hierro</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Palma" title="La Palma">La Palma</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Gomera" title="La Gomera">La Gomera</a> lying to the west of the archipelago have a climate which is influenced by the moist <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_stream" title="Gulf stream" class="mw-redirect">gulf stream</a>. They are well vegetated even at low levels and have extensive tracts of sub-tropical laurisilva forest. As one travels east toward the African coast, the influence of the gulf stream diminishes, and the islands become increasingly arid. <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuerteventura" title="Fuerteventura">Fuerteventura</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanzarote" title="Lanzarote">Lanzarote</a> the islands which are closest to the African mainland are effectively desert or semi desert. <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Canaria" title="Gran Canaria">Gran Canaria</a> is known as a "continent in miniature" for its diverse landscapes like <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maspalomas" title="Maspalomas">Maspalomas</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_Nublo" title="Roque Nublo">Roque Nublo</a>. In terms of its climate <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife" title="Tenerife">Tenerife</a> is particularly interesting. The north of the island lies under the influence of the moist Atlantic winds and is well vegetated, while the south of the island around the tourist resorts of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playa_de_las_Americas" title="Playa de las Americas" class="mw-redirect">Playa de las Americas</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Cristianos" title="Los Cristianos">Los Cristianos</a> is arid. The island rises to almost 4,000 m (13,000 ft) above sea level, and at altitude, in the cool relatively wet climate, forests of the endemic pine <i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_canariensis" title="Pinus canariensis">Pinus canariensis</a></i> thrive. Many of the plant species in the Canary Islands, like the Canary Island pine and the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_(plant)" title="Dracaena (plant)">dragon tree</a>, <i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_draco" title="Dracaena draco">Dracaena draco</a></i> are endemic, as noted by <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabin_Berthelot" title="Sabin Berthelot">Sabin Berthelot</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Barker_Webb" title="Philip Barker Webb" class="mw-redirect">Philip Barker Webb</a> in their epic work, <i>L'Histoire Naturelle des Îles Canaries</i> (1835–50).</p> <p>Four of Spain's thirteen national parks are located in the Canary Islands, more than any other autonomous community. <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide_National_Park" title="Teide National Park">Teide National Park</a> is the most visited in Spain, and the oldest and largest within the Canary Islands. The parks are:</p> <table class="wikitable"> <tr align="left"> <th>Park</th> <th>Island</th> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Nacional_de_la_Caldera_de_Taburiente" title="Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Taburiente" class="mw-redirect">Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Taburiente</a></td> <td>La Palma</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garajonay_National_Park" title="Garajonay National Park">Garajonay National Park</a></td> <td>La Gomera</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide" title="Teide">Teide National Park</a></td> <td>Tenerife</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timanfaya_National_Park" title="Timanfaya National Park">Timanfaya National Park</a></td> <td>Lanzarote</td> </tr> </table> <p>The following table shows the highest mountains in each of the islands:</p> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:242px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:El_Teide.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/El_Teide.jpg/240px-El_Teide.jpg" width="240" height="160" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/El_Teide.jpg/360px-El_Teide.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/El_Teide.jpg/480px-El_Teide.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="533"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:El_Teide.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Mount <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide" title="Teide">Teide</a></div> </div> </div> <table class="wikitable"> <tr align="left"> <th rowspan="2">Mountain</th> <th colspan="2">Elevation</th> <th rowspan="2">Island</th> </tr> <tr> <th>m</th> <th>ft</th> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide" title="Teide">Teide</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;">3,718</td> <td style="text-align: right;">12,198</td> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife" title="Tenerife">Tenerife</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_de_los_Muchachos" title="Roque de los Muchachos">Roque de los Muchachos</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;">2,426</td> <td style="text-align: right;">7,959</td> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Palma" title="La Palma">La Palma</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_de_las_Nieves" title="Pico de las Nieves">Pico de las Nieves</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,949</td> <td style="text-align: right;">6,394</td> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Canaria" title="Gran Canaria">Gran Canaria</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pico_de_Malpaso&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pico de Malpaso (page does not exist)">Pico de Malpaso</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,500</td> <td style="text-align: right;">4,900</td> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hierro" title="El Hierro">El Hierro</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garajonay" title="Garajonay" class="mw-redirect">Garajonay</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,487</td> <td style="text-align: right;">4,879</td> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Gomera" title="La Gomera">La Gomera</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pico_de_la_Zarza&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pico de la Zarza (page does not exist)">Pico de la Zarza</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;">812</td> <td style="text-align: right;">2,664</td> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuerteventura" title="Fuerteventura">Fuerteventura</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pe%C3%B1as_del_Chache&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peñas del Chache (page does not exist)">Peñas del Chache</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;">670</td> <td style="text-align: right;">2,200</td> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanzarote" title="Lanzarote">Lanzarote</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aguja_Grande&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aguja Grande (page does not exist)">Aguja Grande</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;">266</td> <td style="text-align: right;">873</td> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Graciosa" title="La Graciosa" class="mw-redirect">La Graciosa</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caldera_de_Alegranza&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caldera de Alegranza (page does not exist)">Caldera de Alegranza</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;">289</td> <td style="text-align: right;">948</td> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alegranza" title="Alegranza">Alegranza</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caldera_de_Lobos&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caldera de Lobos (page does not exist)">Caldera de Lobos</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;">126</td> <td style="text-align: right;">413</td> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islote_de_Lobos" title="Islote de Lobos" class="mw-redirect">Lobos</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_Mariana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="La Mariana (page does not exist)">La Mariana</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;">256</td> <td style="text-align: right;">840</td> <td><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monta%C3%B1a_Clara" title="Montaña Clara">Montaña Clara</a></td> </tr> </table> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Climate">Climate</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Climate">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>The climate is <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtropics" title="Subtropics">subtropical</a> all year round, moderated by the sea and in summer by the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_wind" title="Trade wind">trade winds</a>. There are a number of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microclimate" title="Microclimate">microclimates</a> and the classifications range from <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate" title="Mediterranean climate">Mediterranean</a> to <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_climate" title="Desert climate">desert</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p> <table class="wikitable collapsible" style="width:90%; text-align:center; font-size:90%; line-height: 1.1em; margin:auto;"> <tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Gran Canaria Airport 24m (1981-2010)</th> </tr> <tr> <th>Month</th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="January">Jan</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="February">Feb</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="March">Mar</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="April">Apr</abbr></th> <th>May</th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="June">Jun</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="July">Jul</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="August">Aug</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="September">Sep</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="October">Oct</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="November">Nov</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="December">Dec</abbr></th> <th style="border-left-width:medium">Year</th> </tr> <tr> <th height="16"><abbr class="abbr" title="Average high temperature during the day (average maximum daytime temperature)">Average high</abbr> °C (°F)</th> <td style="background:#FF8E1E;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">20.8<br/> (69.4)</td> <td style="background:#FF8B18;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.2<br/> (70.2)</td> <td style="background:#FF8409;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">22.3<br/> (72.1)</td> <td style="background:#FF8205;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">22.6<br/> (72.7)</td> <td style="background:#FF7B00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">23.6<br/> (74.5)</td> <td style="background:#FF6F00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">25.3<br/> (77.5)</td> <td style="background:#FF6400;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">26.9<br/> (80.4)</td> <td style="background:#FF6000;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">27.5<br/> (81.5)</td> <td style="background:#FF6200;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">27.2<br/> (81)</td> <td style="background:#FF6900;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">26.2<br/> (79.2)</td> <td style="background:#FF7700;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">24.2<br/> (75.6)</td> <td style="background:#FF850B;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">22.2<br/> (72)</td> <td style="background:#FF7700;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">24.2<br/> (75.6)</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16">Daily mean °C (°F)</th> <td style="background:#FFA246;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">17.9<br/> (64.2)</td> <td style="background:#FFA042;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">18.2<br/> (64.8)</td> <td style="background:#FF9B37;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">19.0<br/> (66.2)</td> <td style="background:#FF9831;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">19.4<br/> (66.9)</td> <td style="background:#FF9123;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">20.4<br/> (68.7)</td> <td style="background:#FF850B;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">22.2<br/> (72)</td> <td style="background:#FF7900;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">23.8<br/> (74.8)</td> <td style="background:#FF7400;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">24.6<br/> (76.3)</td> <td style="background:#FF7600;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">24.3<br/> (75.7)</td> <td style="background:#FF7E00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">23.1<br/> (73.6)</td> <td style="background:#FF8B18;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.2<br/> (70.2)</td> <td style="background:#FF9934;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">19.2<br/> (66.6)</td> <td style="background:#FF8C1A;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">21.1<br/> (70)</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16"><abbr class="abbr" title="Average low temperature at night (average minimum night-time temperature)">Average low</abbr> °C (°F)</th> <td style="background:#FFB66E;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">15.0<br/> (59)</td> <td style="background:#FFB66E;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">15.0<br/> (59)</td> <td style="background:#FFB164;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">15.7<br/> (60.3)</td> <td style="background:#FFAE5D;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">16.2<br/> (61.2)</td> <td style="background:#FFA64E;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">17.3<br/> (63.1)</td> <td style="background:#FF9934;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">19.2<br/> (66.6)</td> <td style="background:#FF8E1E;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">20.8<br/> (69.4)</td> <td style="background:#FF8913;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.6<br/> (70.9)</td> <td style="background:#FF8A16;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.4<br/> (70.5)</td> <td style="background:#FF9327;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">20.1<br/> (68.2)</td> <td style="background:#FFA143;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">18.1<br/> (64.6)</td> <td style="background:#FFAE5D;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">16.2<br/> (61.2)</td> <td style="background:#FFA144;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">18.0<br/> (64.4)</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">Precipitation</a> mm (inches)</th> <td style="background:#D9D9FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">25<br/> (0.98)</td> <td style="background:#D7D7FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">24<br/> (0.94)</td> <td style="background:#EBEBFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">13<br/> (0.51)</td> <td style="background:#F5F5FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">6<br/> (0.24)</td> <td style="background:#FDFDFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">1<br/> (0.04)</td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0<br/> (0)</td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0<br/> (0)</td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0<br/> (0)</td> <td style="background:#F1F1FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">9<br/> (0.35)</td> <td style="background:#E7E7FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">16<br/> (0.63)</td> <td style="background:#DDDDFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">22<br/> (0.87)</td> <td style="background:#D0D0FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">31<br/> (1.22)</td> <td style="background:#EBEBFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">151<br/> (5.94)</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16"><span style="font-size:90%"><abbr class="abbr" title="Average">Avg.</abbr> precipitation days <span style="font-size:80%" class="nowrap">(≥ 1 mm)</span></span></th> <td style="background:#D9D9FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">3</td> <td style="background:#D6D6FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">3</td> <td style="background:#E6E6FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">2</td> <td style="background:#F2F2FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">1</td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0</td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0</td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0</td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0</td> <td style="background:#F2F2FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">1</td> <td style="background:#E6E6FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">2</td> <td style="background:#CCCCFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">4</td> <td style="background:#C1C1FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">5</td> <td style="background:#E7E7FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">22</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16"><span style="font-size:90%">Mean monthly <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a></span></th> <td style="background:#D3D300;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">184</td> <td style="background:#DADA00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">191</td> <td style="background:#DEDE00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">229</td> <td style="background:#DFDF00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">228</td> <td style="background:#E8E800;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">272</td> <td style="background:#EDED07;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">284</td> <td style="background:#F0F00F;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">308</td> <td style="background:#EEEE0B;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">300</td> <td style="background:#E2E200;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">241</td> <td style="background:#DCDC00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">220</td> <td style="background:#D5D500;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">185</td> <td style="background:#D1D100;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">179</td> <td style="background:#E0E000;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">2,821</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:85%"><i>Source: <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Meteorological_Organization" title="World Meteorological Organization">World Meteorological Organization</a> (<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">UN</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span>[</span>25<span>]</span></a></sup> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agencia_Estatal_de_Meteorolog%C3%ADa" title="Agencia Estatal de Meteorología">Agencia Estatal de Meteorología</a><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span>[</span>26<span>]</span></a></sup></i></td> </tr> </table> <table class="wikitable collapsible" style="width:90%; text-align:center; font-size:90%; line-height: 1.1em; margin:auto;"> <tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Santa Cruz 35m (1981-2010)</th> </tr> <tr> <th>Month</th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="January">Jan</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="February">Feb</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="March">Mar</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="April">Apr</abbr></th> <th>May</th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="June">Jun</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="July">Jul</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="August">Aug</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="September">Sep</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="October">Oct</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="November">Nov</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="December">Dec</abbr></th> <th style="border-left-width:medium">Year</th> </tr> <tr> <th height="16"><abbr class="abbr" title="Average high temperature during the day (average maximum daytime temperature)">Average high</abbr> °C (°F)</th> <td style="background:#FF8D1B;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.0<br/> (69.8)</td> <td style="background:#FF8B18;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.2<br/> (70.2)</td> <td style="background:#FF850C;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">22.1<br/> (71.8)</td> <td style="background:#FF8104;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">22.7<br/> (72.9)</td> <td style="background:#FF7700;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">24.1<br/> (75.4)</td> <td style="background:#FF6900;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">26.2<br/> (79.2)</td> <td style="background:#FF5800;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">28.7<br/> (83.7)</td> <td style="background:#FF5600;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">29.0<br/> (84.2)</td> <td style="background:#FF5C00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">28.1<br/> (82.6)</td> <td style="background:#FF6800;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">26.3<br/> (79.3)</td> <td style="background:#FF7700;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">24.1<br/> (75.4)</td> <td style="background:#FF850C;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">22.1<br/> (71.8)</td> <td style="background:#FF7400;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">24.6<br/> (76.3)</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16">Daily mean °C (°F)</th> <td style="background:#FFA042;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">18.2<br/> (64.8)</td> <td style="background:#FF9F40;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">18.3<br/> (64.9)</td> <td style="background:#FF9B37;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">19.0<br/> (66.2)</td> <td style="background:#FF962D;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">19.7<br/> (67.5)</td> <td style="background:#FF8D1B;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.0<br/> (69.8)</td> <td style="background:#FF8001;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">22.9<br/> (73.2)</td> <td style="background:#FF7100;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">25.0<br/> (77)</td> <td style="background:#FF6E00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">25.5<br/> (77.9)</td> <td style="background:#FF7200;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">24.9<br/> (76.8)</td> <td style="background:#FF7C00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">23.4<br/> (74.1)</td> <td style="background:#FF8B17;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.3<br/> (70.3)</td> <td style="background:#FF9831;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">19.4<br/> (66.9)</td> <td style="background:#FF8914;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">21.5<br/> (70.7)</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16"><abbr class="abbr" title="Average low temperature at night (average minimum night-time temperature)">Average low</abbr> °C (°F)</th> <td style="background:#FFB368;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">15.4<br/> (59.7)</td> <td style="background:#FFB46A;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">15.3<br/> (59.5)</td> <td style="background:#FFB061;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">15.9<br/> (60.6)</td> <td style="background:#FFAC59;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">16.5<br/> (61.7)</td> <td style="background:#FFA347;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">17.8<br/> (64)</td> <td style="background:#FF9730;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">19.5<br/> (67.1)</td> <td style="background:#FF8B18;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.2<br/> (70.2)</td> <td style="background:#FF870F;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.9<br/> (71.4)</td> <td style="background:#FF8811;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.7<br/> (71.1)</td> <td style="background:#FF9225;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">20.3<br/> (68.5)</td> <td style="background:#FF9F3F;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">18.4<br/> (65.1)</td> <td style="background:#FFAB58;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">16.6<br/> (61.9)</td> <td style="background:#FF9F3F;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">18.4<br/> (65.1)</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16">Rainfall mm (inches)</th> <td style="background:#D0D0FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">31.5<br/> (1.24)</td> <td style="background:#C4C4FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">35.4<br/> (1.394)</td> <td style="background:#C6C6FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">37.8<br/> (1.488)</td> <td style="background:#EDEDFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">11.6<br/> (0.457)</td> <td style="background:#F9F9FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">3.6<br/> (0.142)</td> <td style="background:#FDFDFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0.9<br/> (0.035)</td> <td style="background:#FEFEFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0.1<br/> (0.004)</td> <td style="background:#FCFCFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">2.0<br/> (0.079)</td> <td style="background:#F4F4FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">6.8<br/> (0.268)</td> <td style="background:#E3E3FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">18.7<br/> (0.736)</td> <td style="background:#CACAFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">34.1<br/> (1.343)</td> <td style="background:#BEBEFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">43.2<br/> (1.701)</td> <td style="background:#E2E2FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">225.7<br/> (8.887)</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16"><span style="font-size:90%"><abbr class="abbr" title="Average">Avg.</abbr> rainy days <span style="font-size:80%" class="nowrap">(≥ 1.0 mm)</span></span></th> <td style="background:#9C9CFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">8.0</td> <td style="background:#9C9CFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">7.2</td> <td style="background:#A9A9FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">6.9</td> <td style="background:#B8B8FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">5.5</td> <td style="background:#DBDBFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">2.9</td> <td style="background:#F3F3FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0.9</td> <td style="background:#FCFCFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0.2</td> <td style="background:#F5F5FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0.8</td> <td style="background:#DCDCFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">2.7</td> <td style="background:#B3B3FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">6.1</td> <td style="background:#8E8EFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">8.8</td> <td style="background:#8B8BFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">9.4</td> <td style="background:#C0C0FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">59.4</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16"><span style="font-size:90%">Mean monthly <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a></span></th> <td style="background:#D0D000;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">178</td> <td style="background:#D9D900;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">186</td> <td style="background:#DCDC00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">221</td> <td style="background:#E1E100;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">237</td> <td style="background:#EAEA01;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">282</td> <td style="background:#F2F214;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">306</td> <td style="background:#F7F71F;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">337</td> <td style="background:#F2F215;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">319</td> <td style="background:#E5E500;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">253</td> <td style="background:#DCDC00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">222</td> <td style="background:#D3D300;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">178</td> <td style="background:#CCCC00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">168</td> <td style="background:#E1E100;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">2,887</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:85%"><i>Source: <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agencia_Estatal_de_Meteorolog%C3%ADa" title="Agencia Estatal de Meteorología">Agencia Estatal de Meteorología</a><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span>[</span>27<span>]</span></a></sup></i></td> </tr> </table> <table class="wikitable collapsible" style="width:90%; text-align:center; font-size:90%; line-height: 1.1em; margin:auto;"> <tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Tenerife South Airport 64m (1981-2010)</th> </tr> <tr> <th>Month</th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="January">Jan</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="February">Feb</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="March">Mar</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="April">Apr</abbr></th> <th>May</th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="June">Jun</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="July">Jul</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="August">Aug</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="September">Sep</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="October">Oct</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="November">Nov</abbr></th> <th><abbr class="abbr" title="December">Dec</abbr></th> <th style="border-left-width:medium">Year</th> </tr> <tr> <th height="16"><abbr class="abbr" title="Average high temperature during the day (average maximum daytime temperature)">Average high</abbr> °C (°F)</th> <td style="background:#FF8811;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.7<br/> (71.1)</td> <td style="background:#FF860D;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">22.0<br/> (71.6)</td> <td style="background:#FF7E00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">23.1<br/> (73.6)</td> <td style="background:#FF7E00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">23.1<br/> (73.6)</td> <td style="background:#FF7900;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">23.9<br/> (75)</td> <td style="background:#FF6E00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">25.4<br/> (77.7)</td> <td style="background:#FF5F00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">27.7<br/> (81.9)</td> <td style="background:#FF5A00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">28.4<br/> (83.1)</td> <td style="background:#FF5D00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">27.9<br/> (82.2)</td> <td style="background:#FF6500;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">26.8<br/> (80.2)</td> <td style="background:#FF7300;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">24.8<br/> (76.6)</td> <td style="background:#FF8002;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">22.8<br/> (73)</td> <td style="background:#FF7300;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">24.8<br/> (76.6)</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16">Daily mean °C (°F)</th> <td style="background:#FF9F3F;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">18.4<br/> (65.1)</td> <td style="background:#FF9E3E;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">18.5<br/> (65.3)</td> <td style="background:#FF9933;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">19.3<br/> (66.7)</td> <td style="background:#FF9730;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">19.5<br/> (67.1)</td> <td style="background:#FF9123;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">20.4<br/> (68.7)</td> <td style="background:#FF850C;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">22.1<br/> (71.8)</td> <td style="background:#FF7800;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">24.0<br/> (75.2)</td> <td style="background:#FF7300;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">24.7<br/> (76.5)</td> <td style="background:#FF7500;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">24.5<br/> (76.1)</td> <td style="background:#FF7C00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">23.4<br/> (74.1)</td> <td style="background:#FF8914;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.5<br/> (70.7)</td> <td style="background:#FF962D;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">19.7<br/> (67.5)</td> <td style="background:#FF8A16;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">21.4<br/> (70.5)</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16"><abbr class="abbr" title="Average low temperature at night (average minimum night-time temperature)">Average low</abbr> °C (°F)</th> <td style="background:#FFB56B;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">15.2<br/> (59.4)</td> <td style="background:#FFB66E;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">15.0<br/> (59)</td> <td style="background:#FFB266;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">15.6<br/> (60.1)</td> <td style="background:#FFAF60;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">16.0<br/> (60.8)</td> <td style="background:#FFA852;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">17.0<br/> (62.6)</td> <td style="background:#FF9C39;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">18.8<br/> (65.8)</td> <td style="background:#FF9226;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">20.2<br/> (68.4)</td> <td style="background:#FF8C1A;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.1<br/> (70)</td> <td style="background:#FF8C1A;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">21.1<br/> (70)</td> <td style="background:#FF9429;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">20.0<br/> (68)</td> <td style="background:#FFA042;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">18.2<br/> (64.8)</td> <td style="background:#FFAC59;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">16.5<br/> (61.7)</td> <td style="background:#FFA246;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">17.9<br/> (64.2)</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16">Rainfall mm (inches)</th> <td style="background:#E6E6FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">16.6<br/> (0.654)</td> <td style="background:#DEDEFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">19.9<br/> (0.783)</td> <td style="background:#E9E9FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">14.7<br/> (0.579)</td> <td style="background:#F3F3FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">7.4<br/> (0.291)</td> <td style="background:#FDFDFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">1.1<br/> (0.043)</td> <td style="background:#FEFEFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0.1<br/> (0.004)</td> <td style="background:#FEFEFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0.1<br/> (0.004)</td> <td style="background:#FDFDFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">1.3<br/> (0.051)</td> <td style="background:#F9F9FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">3.6<br/> (0.142)</td> <td style="background:#EDEDFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">11.9<br/> (0.469)</td> <td style="background:#D6D6FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">26.3<br/> (1.035)</td> <td style="background:#D1D1FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">30.3<br/> (1.193)</td> <td style="background:#EEEEFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">133.3<br/> (5.248)</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16"><span style="font-size:90%"><abbr class="abbr" title="Average">Avg.</abbr> rainy days <span style="font-size:80%" class="nowrap">(≥ 1.0 mm)</span></span></th> <td style="background:#E8E8FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">1.8</td> <td style="background:#E0E0FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">2.2</td> <td style="background:#E7E7FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">1.9</td> <td style="background:#F0F0FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">1.1</td> <td style="background:#FBFBFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0.3</td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0.0</td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0.0</td> <td style="background:#FCFCFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0.2</td> <td style="background:#F7F7FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">0.6</td> <td style="background:#EBEBFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">1.6</td> <td style="background:#E6E6FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">1.9</td> <td style="background:#D3D3FF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">3.5</td> <td style="background:#EFEFFF;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">15.1</td> </tr> <tr> <th height="16"><span style="font-size:90%">Mean monthly <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a></span></th> <td style="background:#D6D600;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">193</td> <td style="background:#DBDB00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">195</td> <td style="background:#DDDD00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">226</td> <td style="background:#DDDD00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">219</td> <td style="background:#E2E200;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">246</td> <td style="background:#E7E700;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">259</td> <td style="background:#EDED08;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">295</td> <td style="background:#E9E900;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">277</td> <td style="background:#DCDC00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">213</td> <td style="background:#DADA00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">214</td> <td style="background:#D7D700;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">193</td> <td style="background:#D6D600;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center;">195</td> <td style="background:#DEDE00;color:#000000;font-size:85%;text-align:center; border-left-width:medium">2,725</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:85%"><i>Source: <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agencia_Estatal_de_Meteorolog%C3%ADa" title="Agencia Estatal de Meteorología">Agencia Estatal de Meteorología</a><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span>[</span>28<span>]</span></a></sup></i></td> </tr> </table> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Geology">Geology</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Geology">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>The originally volcanic islands –seven major islands, one minor island, and several small islets– were formed by the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_hotspot" title="Canary hotspot">Canary hotspot</a>. The Canary Islands is the only place in Spain where <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_eruption" title="Volcanic eruption" class="mw-redirect">volcanic eruptions</a> have been recorded during the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Era" title="Modern Era" class="mw-redirect">Modern Era</a>, with some volcanoes still active (El Hierro, 2011).<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span>[</span>29<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>Volcanic islands such as the those in the Canary chain often have steep ocean cliffs caused by catastrophic debris avalanches and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landslide" title="Landslide">landslides</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span>[</span>30<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_geography">Political geography</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Political geography">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table class="mw-stack" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" style="float:right; background:transparent; margin:0; padding:0;"> <tr> <td> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:242px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Las_Palmas_-_Mapa_municipal.svg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Las_Palmas_-_Mapa_municipal.svg/240px-Las_Palmas_-_Mapa_municipal.svg.png" width="240" height="127" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Las_Palmas_-_Mapa_municipal.svg/360px-Las_Palmas_-_Mapa_municipal.svg.png 1.5x, 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src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_-_Mapa_municipal.svg/240px-Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_-_Mapa_municipal.svg.png" width="240" height="127" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_-_Mapa_municipal.svg/360px-Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_-_Mapa_municipal.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_-_Mapa_municipal.svg/480px-Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_-_Mapa_municipal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="778" data-file-height="413"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_-_Mapa_municipal.svg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Municipalities in the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_(province)" title="Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province)" class="mw-redirect">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a> Province</div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <div class="thumb tleft"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canary_Islands_map_by_William_Dampier_1699_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15675.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Canary_Islands_map_by_William_Dampier_1699_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15675.jpg/200px-Canary_Islands_map_by_William_Dampier_1699_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15675.jpg" width="200" height="293" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Canary_Islands_map_by_William_Dampier_1699_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15675.jpg/300px-Canary_Islands_map_by_William_Dampier_1699_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15675.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Canary_Islands_map_by_William_Dampier_1699_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15675.jpg/400px-Canary_Islands_map_by_William_Dampier_1699_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15675.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="732"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canary_Islands_map_by_William_Dampier_1699_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15675.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Maps of the Canary Islands drawn by <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dampier" title="William Dampier">William Dampier</a> during his voyage to <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_West_India_Company" title="Dutch West India Company">New Holland</a> in 1699.</div> </div> </div> <p>The <b>Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands</b> consists of two <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Spain" title="Provinces of Spain">provinces</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Las_Palmas" title="Province of Las Palmas">Las Palmas</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a>, whose capitals (<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Palmas_de_Gran_Canaria" title="Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" class="mw-redirect">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a>) are capitals of the autonomous community. Each of the seven major islands is ruled by an island council named <i>Cabildo Insular</i>.</p> <p>The international boundary of the Canaries is the subject of dispute between Spain and Morocco. Morocco's official position is that international laws regarding territorial limits do not authorise Spain to claim seabed boundaries based on the territory of the Canaries, since the Canary Islands enjoy a high degree of autonomy. <span class="citation-needed-content" style="background-color: #fff9f9; color: DarkSlateGray; border: 1px solid #ffdcdc;">In fact, the islands do not enjoy any special degree of autonomy as each one of the Spanish regions is considered an <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_community" title="Autonomous community" class="mw-redirect">autonomous community</a>. Under the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_Sea" title="Law of the Sea" class="mw-redirect">Law of the Sea</a>, the only islands not granted territorial waters or an <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_Economic_Zone" title="Exclusive Economic Zone" class="mw-redirect">Exclusive Economic Zone</a> (EEZ) are those that are not fit for human habitation or do not have an economic life of their own, which is clearly not the case of the Canary Islands.</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p> <p>The boundary determines the ownership of seabed oil deposits and other ocean resources. Morocco and Spain have therefore been unable to agree on a compromise regarding the territorial boundary, since neither nation wants to cede its claimed right to the vast resources whose ownership depends upon the boundary. In 2002, for example, Morocco rejected a unilateral Spanish proposal.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span>[</span>31<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>The Islands have 13 seats in the Spanish Senate. Of these, 11 seats are directly elected, 3 for Gran Canaria, 3 for Tenerife, 1 for each other island; 2 seats are indirectly elected by the regional Autonomous Government. The local government is presided over by <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulino_Rivero" title="Paulino Rivero">Paulino Rivero</a>, the current <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="President of the Canary Islands">President of the Canary Islands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span>[</span>32<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: History">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Ancient_and_pre-colonial_times">Ancient and pre-colonial times</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Ancient and pre-colonial times">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands_in_pre-colonial_times" title="Canary Islands in pre-colonial times">Canary Islands in pre-colonial times</a></div> <p>Before the arrival of the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_people" title="Aboriginal people" class="mw-redirect">aborigines</a>, the Canaries were inhabited by prehistoric animals; for example, the giant lizard (<i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallotia_goliath" title="Gallotia goliath">Gallotia goliath</a></i>), or giant rats (<i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canariomys_bravoi" title="Canariomys bravoi" class="mw-redirect">Canariomys bravoi</a></i> and <i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canariomys_tamarani" title="Canariomys tamarani" class="mw-redirect">Canariomys tamarani</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span>[</span>33<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>The islands were visited by the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians" title="Phoenicians" class="mw-redirect">Phoenicians</a>, the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks" title="Greeks">Greeks</a>, and the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthaginians" title="Carthaginians" class="mw-redirect">Carthaginians</a>. According to the 1st century AD <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Roman</a> author and philosopher <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny the Elder</a>, the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archipelago" title="Archipelago">archipelago</a> was found to be uninhabited when visited by the Carthaginians under <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanno_the_Navigator" title="Hanno the Navigator">Hanno the Navigator</a>, but that they saw ruins of great buildings.<sup id="cite_ref-Galindo_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Galindo-34"><span>[</span>34<span>]</span></a></sup> This story may suggest that the islands were inhabited by other peoples prior to the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanches" title="Guanches">Guanches</a>. King <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juba_II" title="Juba II">Juba</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a>'s <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numidia" title="Numidia">Numidian</a> protégé, is credited with discovering the islands for the Western world. He dispatched a naval contingent to re-open the dye production facility at <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogador" title="Mogador" class="mw-redirect">Mogador</a> in what is now western Morocco in the early 1st century <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">AD</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span>[</span>35<span>]</span></a></sup> That same naval force was subsequently sent on an exploration of the Canary Islands, using Mogador as their mission base.</p> <p>The Romans called each of the islands; <i>Ninguaria</i> or <i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivaria" title="Nivaria">Nivaria</a></i> (Tenerife), <i>Canaria</i> (Gran Canaria), <i>Pluvialia</i> or <i>Invale</i> (Lanzarote), <i>Ombrion</i> (La Palma), <i>Planasia</i> (Fuerteventura), <i>Iunonia</i> or <i>Junonia</i> (El Hierro) and <i>Capraria</i> (La Gomera).</p> <p>When the Europeans began to explore the islands, they encountered several <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_populations" title="Indigenous populations" class="mw-redirect">indigenous populations</a> living at a <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> level of technology. Although the history of the settlement of the Canary Islands is still unclear, linguistic and genetic analyses seem to indicate that at least some of these inhabitants shared a common origin with the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_people" title="Berber people" class="mw-redirect">Berbers</a> of northern Africa.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span>[</span>36<span>]</span></a></sup> The pre-colonial inhabitants came to be known collectively as the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanches" title="Guanches">Guanches</a>, although <i>Guanches</i> was originally the name for the indigenous inhabitants of Tenerife. From the 14th century onward, numerous visits were made by sailors from <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorca" title="Majorca">Majorca</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa" title="Genoa">Genoa</a>. <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelotto_Malocello" title="Lancelotto Malocello">Lancelotto Malocello</a> settled on Lanzarote in 1312. The Majorcans established a <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary" title="Missionary">mission</a> with a bishop in the islands that lasted from 1350 to 1400.</p> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AlonsoFernandezdeLugo2.JPG" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/AlonsoFernandezdeLugo2.JPG/250px-AlonsoFernandezdeLugo2.JPG" width="250" height="162" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/AlonsoFernandezdeLugo2.JPG/375px-AlonsoFernandezdeLugo2.JPG 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/AlonsoFernandezdeLugo2.JPG/500px-AlonsoFernandezdeLugo2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="557" data-file-height="361"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AlonsoFernandezdeLugo2.JPG" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Alonso Fernández de Lugo presenting the captured native kings of Tenerife to <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_and_Isabella" title="Ferdinand and Isabella" class="mw-redirect">Ferdinand and Isabella</a></div> </div> </div> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Castilian_conquest">Castilian conquest</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Castilian conquest">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle">Main articles: <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="Conquest of the Canary Islands">Conquest of the Canary Islands</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="Kingdom of the Canary Islands">Kingdom of the Canary Islands</a></div> <p>There may have been a Portuguese expedition that attempted to colonise the islands as early as 1336, but there is not enough hard evidence to support this. In 1402, the Castilian conquest of the islands began, with the expedition of French explorers <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_B%C3%A9thencourt" title="Jean de Béthencourt">Jean de Béthencourt</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadifer_de_la_Salle" title="Gadifer de la Salle">Gadifer de la Salle</a>, nobles and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal" title="Vassal">vassals</a> of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III_of_Castile" title="Henry III of Castile">Henry III of Castile</a>, to Lanzarote. From there, they conquered Fuerteventura (1405) and El Hierro. Béthencourt received the title King of the Canary Islands, but still recognised King Henry III as his overlord.</p> <p>Béthencourt also established a base on the island of La Gomera, but it would be many years before the island was truly conquered. The natives of La Gomera, and of Gran Canaria, Tenerife, and La Palma, resisted the Castilian invaders for almost a century. In 1448 <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maciot_de_B%C3%A9thencourt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maciot de Béthencourt (page does not exist)">Maciot de Béthencourt</a> sold the lordship of Lanzarote to Portugal's Prince <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_the_Navigator" title="Henry the Navigator">Henry the Navigator</a>, an action that was not accepted by the natives nor by the Castilians. Despite <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Nicholas_V#cite_ref-8" title="Pope Nicholas V">Pope Nicholas V</a> ruling that the Canary Islands were under Portuguese control, a crisis swelled to a revolt which lasted until 1459 with the final expulsion of the Portuguese. In 1479, Portugal and Castile signed the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Alc%C3%A1%C3%A7ovas" title="Treaty of Alcáçovas">Treaty of Alcáçovas</a>. The treaty settled disputes between Castile and Portugal over the control of the Atlantic, in which Castilian control of the Canary Islands was recognised but which also confirmed Portuguese possession of the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azores" title="Azores">Azores</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira" title="Madeira">Madeira</a>, the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde" title="Cape Verde">Cape Verde</a> islands and gave them rights to lands discovered and to be discovered...and any other island which might be found and conquered from the Canary islands beyond toward <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(region)" title="Guinea (region)">Guinea</a>.</p> <p>The Castilians continued to dominate the islands, but due to the topography and the resistance of the native Guanches, complete pacification was not achieved until 1495, when Tenerife and La Palma were finally subdued by <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Lugo" title="Alonso Fernández de Lugo">Alonso Fernández de Lugo</a>. After that, the Canaries were incorporated into the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Castile" title="Kingdom of Castile">Kingdom of Castile</a>.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="After_the_conquest">After the conquest</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: After the conquest">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:162px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Realm_of_Canary_Islands.svg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Realm_of_Canary_Islands.svg/160px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Realm_of_Canary_Islands.svg.png" width="160" height="225" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Realm_of_Canary_Islands.svg/240px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Realm_of_Canary_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Realm_of_Canary_Islands.svg/320px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Realm_of_Canary_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="874" data-file-height="1228"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Realm_of_Canary_Islands.svg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Coat of arms of the Castilian and Spanish Realm of Canary Islands</div> </div> </div> <p>After the conquest, the Castilians imposed a new economic model, based on single-crop cultivation: first <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_cane" title="Sugar cane" class="mw-redirect">sugar cane</a>; then wine, an important item of trade with <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">England</a>. In this era, the first institutions of colonial government were founded. Both Gran Canaria, a colony of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_of_Castile" title="Crown of Castile">Castile</a> since March 6, 1480 (from 1556, of Spain), and Tenerife, a Spanish colony since 1495, had separate governors.</p> <p>The cities of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Palmas_de_Gran_Canaria" title="Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" class="mw-redirect">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a> became a stopping point for the Spanish conquerors, traders, and missionaries on their way to the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World" title="New World">New World</a>. This trade route brought great prosperity to some of the social sectors of the islands. The islands became quite wealthy and soon were attracting merchants and adventurers from all over Europe. Magnificent palaces and churches were built on La Palma during this busy, prosperous period. The Church of El Salvador survives as one of the island's finest examples of the architecture of the 16th century.</p> <p>The Canaries' wealth invited attacks by <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate" title="Pirate" class="mw-redirect">pirates</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer" title="Privateer">privateers</a>. <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_people" title="Turkish people">Turkish</a> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral" title="Admiral">admiral</a> and privateer <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemal_Reis" title="Kemal Reis">Kemal Reis</a> ventured into the Canaries in 1501, while <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murat_Reis_the_Elder" title="Murat Reis the Elder">Murat Reis the Elder</a> captured Lanzarote in 1585.</p> <p>The most severe attack took place in 1599, during the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Revolt" title="Dutch Revolt">Dutch War of Independence</a>. A <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_people" title="Dutch people">Dutch</a> fleet of 74 ships and 12,000 men, commanded by <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_van_der_Does" title="Pieter van der Does">Pieter van der Does</a>, attacked the capital Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (the city had 3,500 of Gran Canaria's 8,545 inhabitants). The Dutch attacked the Castillo de la Luz, which guarded the harbor. The Canarians evacuated civilians from the city, and the Castillo surrendered (but not the city). The Dutch moved inland, but Canarian cavalry drove them back to Tamaraceite, near the city.</p> <div class="thumb tleft"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:232px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia.de.San.Juan.Bautista.Arucas.JPG" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Iglesia.de.San.Juan.Bautista.Arucas.JPG/230px-Iglesia.de.San.Juan.Bautista.Arucas.JPG" width="230" height="181" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Iglesia.de.San.Juan.Bautista.Arucas.JPG/345px-Iglesia.de.San.Juan.Bautista.Arucas.JPG 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Iglesia.de.San.Juan.Bautista.Arucas.JPG/460px-Iglesia.de.San.Juan.Bautista.Arucas.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2683" data-file-height="2112"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia.de.San.Juan.Bautista.Arucas.JPG" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Church of San Juan Bautista, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arucas" title="Arucas" class="mw-redirect">Arucas</a> in Gran Canaria.</div> </div> </div> <p>The Dutch then laid siege to the city, demanding the surrender of all its wealth. They received 12 sheep and 3 calves. Furious, the Dutch sent 4,000 soldiers to attack the Council of the Canaries, who were sheltering in the village of Santa Brígida. 300 Canarian soldiers ambushed the Dutch in the village of Monte Lentiscal, killing 150 and forcing the rest to retreat. The Dutch concentrated on Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, attempting to burn it down. The Dutch pillaged <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maspalomas" title="Maspalomas">Maspalomas</a>, on the southern coast of Gran Canaria, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Sebastian_de_La_Gomera" title="San Sebastian de La Gomera" class="mw-redirect">San Sebastian</a> on La Gomera, and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_la_Palma" title="Santa Cruz de la Palma" class="mw-redirect">Santa Cruz</a> on La Palma, but eventually gave up the siege of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and withdrew.</p> <p>In 1618 the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates" title="Barbary pirates">Algerian pirates</a> attacked Lanzarote and La Gomera taking 1000 captives to be sold as <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade" title="Barbary slave trade">slaves</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span>[</span>37<span>]</span></a></sup> Another noteworthy attack occurred in 1797, when <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_(1797)" title="Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1797)">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a> was attacked by a British fleet under <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson" title="Horatio Nelson" class="mw-redirect">the future Lord Nelson</a> on 25 July. The British were repulsed, losing almost 400 men. It was during this battle that Nelson lost his right arm.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="18th_to_19th_century">18th to 19th century</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 18th to 19th century">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tleft"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Las_palmas_gran_canaria_parque_san_telmo_2005.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Las_palmas_gran_canaria_parque_san_telmo_2005.jpg/220px-Las_palmas_gran_canaria_parque_san_telmo_2005.jpg" width="220" height="165" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Las_palmas_gran_canaria_parque_san_telmo_2005.jpg/330px-Las_palmas_gran_canaria_parque_san_telmo_2005.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Las_palmas_gran_canaria_parque_san_telmo_2005.jpg/440px-Las_palmas_gran_canaria_parque_san_telmo_2005.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Las_palmas_gran_canaria_parque_san_telmo_2005.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Bus Station—<i>Estación de Guaguas</i> also known as <i>El Hoyo</i> (The hole), on the left, out of the image—at San Telmo Park, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Palmas_de_Gran_Canaria" title="Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" class="mw-redirect">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a>.</div> </div> </div> <p>The sugar-based economy of the islands faced stiff competition from Spain's American colonies. Low prices in the sugar market in the 19th century caused severe recessions on the islands. A new cash crop, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal" title="Cochineal">cochineal</a> (<i>cochinilla</i>), came into cultivation during this time, saving the islands' economy.</p> <p>By the end of the 18th century, Canary Islanders had already emigrated to Spanish American territories, such as <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana" title="Havana">Havana</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracruz" title="Veracruz">Veracruz</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Domingo" title="Santo Domingo">Santo Domingo</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span>[</span>38<span>]</span></a></sup> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio,_Texas" title="San Antonio, Texas" class="mw-redirect">San Antonio, Texas</a><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span>[</span>39<span>]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bernard_Parish,_Louisiana" title="St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana">St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span>[</span>40<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span>[</span>41<span>]</span></a></sup> These economic difficulties spurred mass emigration, primarily to the Americas, during the 19th and first half of the 20th century. Between 1840 and 1890 as many as 40,000 Canary Islanders emigrated to <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>. Also, thousands of Canarians moved to <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> where the Spanish monarchy felt that Canarians would adapt to island life better than other immigrants from the mainland of Spain. Deeply entrenched traditions, such as the Mascaras Festival in the town of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatillo,_Puerto_Rico" title="Hatillo, Puerto Rico">Hatillo, Puerto Rico</a>, are an example of Canarian culture still preserved in Puerto Rico. Similarly, many thousands of Canarians emigrated to the shores of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span>[</span>42<span>]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a> of 1898, the Spanish fortified the islands against possible American attack, but an attack never came.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Romantic_period_and_scientific_expeditions">Romantic period and scientific expeditions</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Romantic period and scientific expeditions">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coast_El_Golfo.JPG" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Coast_El_Golfo.JPG/250px-Coast_El_Golfo.JPG" width="250" height="167" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Coast_El_Golfo.JPG/375px-Coast_El_Golfo.JPG 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Coast_El_Golfo.JPG/500px-Coast_El_Golfo.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2496" data-file-height="1664"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coast_El_Golfo.JPG" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Coast El Golfo, El Hierro</div> </div> </div> <p>Sirera and Renn (2004)<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span>[</span>43<span>]</span></a></sup> distinguish two different types of expeditions, or voyages, during the period 1770–1830, which they term "the Romantic period":</p> <p>First are "expeditions financed by the States, closely related with the official scientific Institutions. characterised by having strict scientific objectives (and inspired by) the spirit of Illustration and progress". In this type of expedition, Sirera and Renn include the following travellers:</p> <ul> <li>J. Edens, whose 1715 ascent and observations of Mt. Teide influenced many subsequent expeditions.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Feuill%C3%A9e" title="Louis Feuillée">Louis Feuillée</a> (1724), who was sent to measure the meridian of El Hierro and to map the islands.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Charles_de_Borda" title="Jean-Charles de Borda">Jean-Charles de Borda</a> (1771, 1776) who more accurately measured the longitudes of the islands and the height of Mount Teide</li> <li>the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Baudin" title="Nicolas Baudin">Baudin</a>-Ledru expedition (1796) which aimed to recover a valuable collection of natural history objects.</li> </ul> <p>The second type of expedition identified by Sirera and Renn is one that took place starting from more or less private initiatives. Among these, the key exponents were the following:</p> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt" title="Alexander von Humboldt">Alexander von Humboldt</a> (1799)</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Von_Buch-Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Von Buch-Smith (page does not exist)">von Buch-Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Broussonet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Broussonet (page does not exist)">Broussonet</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Barker_Webb" title="Philip Barker Webb" class="mw-redirect">Webb</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabin_Berthelot" title="Sabin Berthelot">Sabin Berthelot</a>.</li> </ul> <p>Sirera and Renn identify the period 1770–1830 as one in which "In a panorama dominated until that moment by France and England enters with strength and brio Germany of the Romantic period whose presence in the islands will increase".</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_20th_century">Early 20th century</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Early 20th century">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Columbus_House-Vegueta-Las_Palmas_Gran_Canaria.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Columbus_House-Vegueta-Las_Palmas_Gran_Canaria.jpg/200px-Columbus_House-Vegueta-Las_Palmas_Gran_Canaria.jpg" width="200" height="150" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Columbus_House-Vegueta-Las_Palmas_Gran_Canaria.jpg/300px-Columbus_House-Vegueta-Las_Palmas_Gran_Canaria.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Columbus_House-Vegueta-Las_Palmas_Gran_Canaria.jpg/400px-Columbus_House-Vegueta-Las_Palmas_Gran_Canaria.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Columbus_House-Vegueta-Las_Palmas_Gran_Canaria.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Casa de Colón y Pilar Nuevo (Gran Canaria)</div> </div> </div> <p>At the beginning of the 20th century, the British introduced a new cash-crop, the banana, the export of which was controlled by companies such as <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyffes" title="Fyffes">Fyffes</a>.</p> <p>The rivalry between the elites of the cities of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife for the capital of the islands led to the division of the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archipelago" title="Archipelago">archipelago</a> into two provinces in 1927. This has not laid to rest the rivalry between the two cities, which continues to this day.</p> <p>During the time of the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Spanish_Republic" title="Second Spanish Republic">Second Spanish Republic</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist" title="Marxist" class="mw-redirect">Marxist</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist" title="Anarchist" class="mw-redirect">anarchist</a> workers' movements began to develop, led by figures such as Jose Miguel Perez and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guillermo_Ascanio&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guillermo Ascanio (page does not exist)">Guillermo Ascanio</a>. However, outside of a few municipalities, these organisations were a minority and fell easily to Nationalist forces during the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a>.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Franco_regime">Franco regime</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Franco regime">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>In 1936, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco" title="Francisco Franco">Francisco Franco</a> was appointed General Commandant of the Canaries. He joined the military revolt of July 17 which began the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a>. Franco quickly took control of the archipelago, except for a few points of resistance on La Palma and in the town of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallehermoso,_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Vallehermoso, Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Vallehermoso</a>, on La Gomera. Though there was never a proper war in the islands, the post-war <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_repression" title="Political repression">repression</a> on the Canaries was most severe.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2007)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p> <p>During the Second World War, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> prepared plans for the British seizure of the Canary Islands as a <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_base" title="Naval base">naval base</a>, in the event of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a> being invaded from the Spanish mainland.</p> <p>Opposition to Franco's regime did not begin to organise until the late 1950s, which experienced an upheaval of parties such as the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Spain_(main)" title="Communist Party of Spain (main)" class="mw-redirect">Communist Party of Spain</a> and the formation of various nationalist, leftist parties.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Self-governance">Self-governance</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Self-governance">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tleft"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Auditorio_de_Tenerife_Pano.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Auditorio_de_Tenerife_Pano.jpg/250px-Auditorio_de_Tenerife_Pano.jpg" width="250" height="119" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Auditorio_de_Tenerife_Pano.jpg/375px-Auditorio_de_Tenerife_Pano.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Auditorio_de_Tenerife_Pano.jpg/500px-Auditorio_de_Tenerife_Pano.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5692" data-file-height="2716"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Auditorio_de_Tenerife_Pano.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditorio_de_Tenerife" title="Auditorio de Tenerife">Auditorio de Tenerife</a> by <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Calatrava" title="Santiago Calatrava">Santiago Calatrava</a>, and an icon of contemporary architecture in the Canary Islands, (<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a>)</div> </div> </div> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png/250px-EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png" width="250" height="154" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png/375px-EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png/500px-EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png 2x" data-file-width="2206" data-file-height="1358"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Map of the European Union in the world with overseas countries and territories and outermost regions</div> </div> </div> <p>After the death of Franco, there was a pro-independence armed movement based in <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a>, the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPAIAC" title="MPAIAC" class="mw-redirect">MPAIAC</a>. Now there are some pro-independence political parties, like the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Congress_of_the_Canaries" title="National Congress of the Canaries">CNC</a> and the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="Popular Front of the Canary Islands">Popular Front of the Canary Islands</a>, but none of them calls for an armed struggle. Their popular support is almost insignificant, with no presence in either the autonomous parliament or the <i>cabildos insulares</i>.</p> <p>After the establishment of a democratic <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy" title="Constitutional monarchy">constitutional monarchy</a> in Spain, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-governance" title="Self-governance">autonomy</a> was granted to the Canaries via a law passed in 1982. In 1983, the first autonomous elections were held. The <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Socialist_Workers%27_Party" title="Spanish Socialist Workers' Party">Spanish Socialist Workers' Party</a> (PSOE) won. In the 2007 elections, the PSOE gained a plurality of seats, but the nationalist <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_Coalition" title="Canarian Coalition">Canarian Coalition</a> and the conservative <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Party_(Spain)" title="People's Party (Spain)">Partido Popular</a> (PP) formed a ruling coalition government.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span>[</span>44<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>According to "Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas" (Sociological Research Center) in 2010, 43.5% of the population of the Canary Islands feels more Canarian than Spanish (37.6%), only Canarian (7.6%), compared to 5.4% that feels more Spanish than Canarian (2.4%) or only Spanish (3%). The most popular choice of those who feel equally Spanish and Canarian, with 49.9%. With these data, one of the Canary recorded levels of identification with higher autonomy from Spain.</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Demographics">Demographics</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Demographics">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_people" title="Canarian people">Canarian people</a></div> <table class="toccolours" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="float:right; margin:0 0 1em 1em; font-size:95%;"> <tr> <th colspan="3"><b>Population history</b><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span>[</span>45<span>]</span></a></sup></th> </tr> <tr> <th style="background:#efefef;">Year</th> <th style="background:#efefef;">Population</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>1768</b></th> <th>155,763</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>1787</b></th> <th>168,928</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>1797</b></th> <th>173,865</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>1842</b></th> <th>241,266</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>1860</b></th> <th>237,036</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>1887</b></th> <th>301,983</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>1900</b></th> <th>364,408</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>1920</b></th> <th>488,483</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>1940</b></th> <th>687,937</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>1960</b></th> <th>966,177</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>1981</b></th> <th>1,367,646</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>1990</b></th> <th>1,589,403</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>2000</b></th> <th>1,716,276</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>2008</b></th> <th>2,075,968</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>2009</b></th> <th>2,098,593</th> </tr> <tr> <th><b>2011</b></th> <th>2,117,519</th> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="3"><small>Figures between 1768 and 2011.</small></th> </tr> </table> <table class="toccolours" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="float:right; margin:0 0 1em 1em; font-size:95%;"> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="background:lightblue; text-align:center;">Demographics of the Canary Islands (2009)<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span>[</span>46<span>]</span></a></sup></th> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">Nationality</th> <th style="text-align:center;">Population</th> <th style="text-align:center;">Percent</th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4"> <hr/></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_people" title="Canarian people">Canarian</a></td> <td> <div style="text-align:right;">1,547,611</div> </td> <td> <div style="text-align:right;">91.5%</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;">Mainland Spanish <small>(<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsulares" title="Peninsulares" class="mw-redirect">Peninsulares</a>)</small></td> <td> <div style="text-align:right;">178,613</div> </td> <td> <div style="text-align:right;">8.5%</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaniards" title="Spaniards" class="mw-redirect">Total Spanish</a></th> <th> <div style="text-align:right;">1,802,788</div> </th> <th> <div style="text-align:right;">85.7%</div> </th> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;">Foreign nationals</td> <td> <div style="text-align:right;">301,204</div> </td> <td> <div style="text-align:right;">14.3%</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4"> <hr/></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;">Spanish-born</td> <td> <div style="text-align:right;">1,726,315</div> </td> <td> <div style="text-align:right;">82.0%</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;">Foreign-born</td> <td> <div style="text-align:right;">377,677</div> </td> <td> <div style="text-align:right;">18.0%</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"> <hr/></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">Total</th> <th> <div style="text-align:right;">2,103,992</div> </th> <th> <div style="text-align:right;">100%</div> </th> </tr> </table> <p>The Canary Islands have a population of 2,117,519 inhabitants (2011), making it the eighth most populous of Spain's <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_communities" title="Autonomous communities" class="mw-redirect">autonomous communities</a>, with a density of 282.6 inhabitants per km². The total area of the archipelago is 7,493 km<sup>2</sup> (2,893 sq mi).<sup id="cite_ref-extension_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-extension-47"><span>[</span>47<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>The Canarian population includes long-tenured residents and new waves of mainland Spanish immigrants (including <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicians" title="Galicians" class="mw-redirect">Galicians</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castilians" title="Castilians" class="mw-redirect">Castilians</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_people" title="Catalan people" class="mw-redirect">Catalans</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basques" title="Basques">Basques</a>), as well as <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_people" title="Portuguese people">Portuguese</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italians" title="Italians">Italians</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemings" title="Flemings" class="mw-redirect">Flemings</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_people" title="British people">Britons</a>. Of the total Canarian population in 2009 (2,098,593) 1,799,373 were Spanish (1,547,611 native Canarian and 178,613 from the Spanish mainland) and 299,220 foreigners. Of these, the majority are Europeans (55%), including <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">Germans</a> (39,505), <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_people" title="British people">British</a> (37,937) and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italians" title="Italians">Italians</a> (24,177). There are also 86,287 inhabitants from the Americas, mainly <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombian_people" title="Colombian people" class="mw-redirect">Colombians</a> (21,798), <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_people" title="Venezuelan people">Venezuelans</a> (11,958), <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubans" title="Cubans">Cubans</a> (11,098) and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine" title="Argentine" class="mw-redirect">Argentines</a> (10,159). There are also 28,136 African residents, mostly <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Moroccans</a> (16,240).<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span>[</span>48<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Population_of_the_individual_islands">Population of the individual islands</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Population of the individual islands">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>The population of the islands according the 2010 data are:<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span>[</span>49<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife" title="Tenerife">Tenerife</a> - 906,854</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Canaria" title="Gran Canaria">Gran Canaria</a> - 845,676</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanzarote" title="Lanzarote">Lanzarote</a> - 141,437 (including the population of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Graciosa" title="La Graciosa" class="mw-redirect">La Graciosa</a>)</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuerteventura" title="Fuerteventura">Fuerteventura</a> - 103,492</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Palma" title="La Palma">La Palma</a> - 86,324</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Gomera" title="La Gomera">La Gomera</a> - 22,776</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hierro" title="El Hierro">El Hierro</a> - 10,960</li> </ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Religion">Religion</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Religion">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Candelaria_Basilica.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Candelaria_Basilica.jpg/250px-Candelaria_Basilica.jpg" width="250" height="183" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Candelaria_Basilica.jpg/375px-Candelaria_Basilica.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Candelaria_Basilica.jpg/500px-Candelaria_Basilica.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2307" data-file-height="1689"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Candelaria_Basilica.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Candelaria" title="Basilica of Candelaria">Basilica of the Virgin of Candelaria</a> (Patroness of the Canary Islands) in <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candelaria,_Tenerife" title="Candelaria, Tenerife">Candelaria</a>, Tenerife</div> </div> </div> <p>The overwhelming majority of native Canarians are <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic" title="Roman Catholic" class="mw-redirect">Roman Catholic</a> with various smaller foreign-born populations of other Christian beliefs such as Protestants from northern Europe. Separate from the overwhelming Christian majority are a minority of Muslims, though no official<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span>[</span>50<span>]</span></a></sup> mention is made of them. Other religious faiths represented include <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> as well as <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>. Minority religions are also present such as the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Guanche_People" title="Church of the Guanche People">Church of the Guanche People</a> which is classified as a neo-pagan religion. The appearance of the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_Candelaria" title="Virgin of Candelaria">Virgin of Candelaria</a> (Patron of Canary Islands) was credited with moving the Canary Islands toward Christianity.</p> <p>The Canary Islands are divided into two Catholic dioceses, each governed by a bishop:</p> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Canarias" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Canarias">Diócesis Canariense</a>: Includes the islands of the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Las_Palmas" title="Province of Las Palmas">Eastern Province</a>: Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. Its capital was <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=San_Marcial_El_Rubic%C3%B3n&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="San Marcial El Rubicón (page does not exist)">San Marcial El Rubicón</a> (1404) and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Palmas" title="Las Palmas">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a> (1483–present). There was a previous bishopric which was based in <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telde" title="Telde">Telde</a>, but be was later abolished.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_San_Crist%C3%B3bal_de_La_Laguna" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna">Diócesis Nivariense</a>: Includes the islands of the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_(province)" title="Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province)" class="mw-redirect">western province</a>: Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. Its capital is <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Crist%C3%B3bal_de_La_Laguna" title="San Cristóbal de La Laguna">San Cristóbal de La Laguna</a> (1819–present).</li> </ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Population_genetics">Population genetics</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Population genetics">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_people#Population_genetics" title="Canarian people">Canarian people § Population_genetics</a></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Islands">Islands</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Islands">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="El_Hierro">El Hierro</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: El Hierro">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hierro" title="El Hierro">El Hierro</a>, the westernmost island, covers 268.71 km<sup>2</sup> (103.75 sq mi), making it the smallest of the major islands, and the least populous with 10,753 inhabitants. The whole island was declared Reserve of the Biosphere in 2000. Its capital is <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valverde,_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Valverde, Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Valverde</a>. Also known as Ferro, it was once believed to be the westernmost land in the world.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Fuerteventura">Fuerteventura</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Fuerteventura">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuerteventura" title="Fuerteventura">Fuerteventura</a>, with a surface of 1,660 km<sup>2</sup> (640.93 sq mi), is the second-most extensive island of the archipelago. It has been declared a <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_reserve" title="Biosphere reserve" class="mw-redirect">Biosphere reserve</a> by <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unesco" title="Unesco" class="mw-redirect">Unesco</a>. It has a population of 100,929. Being also the most ancient of the islands, it is the one that is more eroded: its highest point is the Peak of the Bramble, at a height of 807 metres (2,648 ft). Its capital is <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_del_Rosario" title="Puerto del Rosario">Puerto del Rosario</a>.</p> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canary_Islands.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Canary_Islands.jpg/220px-Canary_Islands.jpg" width="220" height="328" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Canary_Islands.jpg/330px-Canary_Islands.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Canary_Islands.jpg/440px-Canary_Islands.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1205" data-file-height="1795"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canary_Islands.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Five Islands of the Canaries.</div> </div> </div> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Gran_Canaria">Gran Canaria</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Gran Canaria">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SP-GC-fataga-tal.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/SP-GC-fataga-tal.jpg/250px-SP-GC-fataga-tal.jpg" width="250" height="167" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/SP-GC-fataga-tal.jpg/375px-SP-GC-fataga-tal.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/SP-GC-fataga-tal.jpg/500px-SP-GC-fataga-tal.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1220" data-file-height="813"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SP-GC-fataga-tal.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> View of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fataga" title="Fataga">Fataga</a>, Gran Canaria</div> </div> </div> <p><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Canaria" title="Gran Canaria">Gran Canaria</a> has 845,676 inhabitants. The capital, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Palmas" title="Las Palmas">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a> (377,203 inhabitants), is the most populous city and shares the status of capital of the Canaries with Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Gran Canaria's surface area is 1,560 km<sup>2</sup> (602.32 sq mi). In center of the island lie the Roque Nublo 1,813 metres (5,948 ft) and Pico de las Nieves ("Peak of Snow") 1,949 metres (6,394 ft). In the south of island are the Maspalomas Dunes (Gran Canaria), these are the biggest tourist attractions.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="La_Gomera">La Gomera</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: La Gomera">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Gomera" title="La Gomera">La Gomera</a> has an area of 369.76 km<sup>2</sup> (142.77 sq mi) and is the second least populous island with 22,622 inhabitants. Geologically it is one of the oldest of the archipelago. The insular capital is <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Sebastian_de_La_Gomera" title="San Sebastian de La Gomera" class="mw-redirect">San Sebastian de La Gomera</a>. Garajonay's National Park is here.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Lanzarote">Lanzarote</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Lanzarote">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanzarote" title="Lanzarote">Lanzarote</a> is the easternmost island and one of the most ancient of the archipelago, and it has shown evidence of recent volcanic activity. It has a surface of 845.94 km<sup>2</sup> (326.62 sq mi), and a population of 139,506 inhabitants, including the adjacent islets of the Chinijo Archipelago. The capital is <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrecife" title="Arrecife">Arrecife</a>, with 56,834 inhabitants.</p> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Chinijo_Archipelago">Chinijo Archipelago</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Chinijo Archipelago">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h4> <p>The <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinijo_Archipelago" title="Chinijo Archipelago">Chinijo Archipelago</a> includes the islands <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Graciosa" title="La Graciosa" class="mw-redirect">La Graciosa</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alegranza" title="Alegranza">Alegranza</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monta%C3%B1a_Clara" title="Montaña Clara">Montaña Clara</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_del_Este" title="Roque del Este">Roque del Este</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_del_Oeste" title="Roque del Oeste">Roque del Oeste</a>. It has a surface of 40.8 km<sup>2</sup> (15.8 sq mi), and a population of 658 inhabitants all of them in the la Graciosa island. With 29 km<sup>2</sup> (11.2 sq mi), La Graciosa, is the smallest inhabited island of the Canaries, and the major island of the Chinijo Archipelago.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="La_Palma">La Palma</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: La Palma">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Palma" title="La Palma">La Palma</a>, with 86,528 inhabitants covering an area of 708.32 km<sup>2</sup> (273.48 sq mi), is in its entirety a biosphere reserve. It shows no recent signs of volcanic activity, even though the volcano <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenegu%C3%ADa" title="Teneguía">Teneguía</a> entered into eruption last in 1971. In addition, it is the second-highest island of the Canaries, with the Roque de los Muchachos 2,423 metres (7,949 ft) as highest point. <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_La_Palma" title="Santa Cruz de La Palma">Santa Cruz de La Palma</a> (known to those on the island as simply "Santa Cruz") is its capital.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Tenerife">Tenerife</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Tenerife">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Urville-Laguna.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Urville-Laguna.jpg/250px-Urville-Laguna.jpg" width="250" height="189" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Urville-Laguna.jpg/375px-Urville-Laguna.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Urville-Laguna.jpg/500px-Urville-Laguna.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="530"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Urville-Laguna.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Crist%C3%B3bal_de_La_Laguna" title="San Cristóbal de La Laguna">San Cristóbal de La Laguna</a> in 1880 (Tenerife)</div> </div> </div> <p><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife" title="Tenerife">Tenerife</a> is, with its area of 2,034 km<sup>2</sup> (785.33 sq mi), the most extensive island of the Canary Islands. In addition, with 906,854 inhabitants it is the most populated island of the archipelago and Spain. Two of the islands' principal cities are located on it: The capital, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Crist%C3%B3bal_de_La_Laguna" title="San Cristóbal de La Laguna">San Cristóbal de La Laguna</a> (a World Heritage Site). San Cristóbal de La Laguna, the second city of the island is home to the oldest university in the Canary Islands, the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_La_Laguna" title="University of La Laguna">University of La Laguna</a>. The <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide" title="Teide">Teide</a>, with its 3,718 metres (12,198 ft) is the highest peak of Spain and also a World Heritage Site. Tenerife is the site of the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster" title="Tenerife airport disaster">worst air disaster</a> in the history of aviation, in which 583 people were killed in the collision of two Boeing 747s on March 27, 1977.</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Data_of_islands">Data of islands</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Data of islands">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tr> <th><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag" title="Flag">Flag</a></th> <th><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms" title="Coat of arms">Coat of arms</a></th> <th>Island</th> <th>Capital</th> <th>Area (km²)</th> <th>Population (2010)</th> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_El_Hierro_with_CoA.svg" class="image"><img alt="Flag of El Hierro with CoA.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Flag_of_El_Hierro_with_CoA.svg/50px-Flag_of_El_Hierro_with_CoA.svg.png" width="50" height="33" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Flag_of_El_Hierro_with_CoA.svg/75px-Flag_of_El_Hierro_with_CoA.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Flag_of_El_Hierro_with_CoA.svg/100px-Flag_of_El_Hierro_with_CoA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500"/></a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_El_Hierro.svg" class="image"><img alt="Coat of Arms of El Hierro.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Coat_of_Arms_of_El_Hierro.svg/30px-Coat_of_Arms_of_El_Hierro.svg.png" width="30" height="51" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Coat_of_Arms_of_El_Hierro.svg/45px-Coat_of_Arms_of_El_Hierro.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Coat_of_Arms_of_El_Hierro.svg/60px-Coat_of_Arms_of_El_Hierro.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="359" data-file-height="614"/></a></td> <td align="left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hierro" title="El Hierro">El Hierro</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valverde,_El_Hierro" title="Valverde, El Hierro" class="mw-redirect">Valverde</a></td> <td align="center">268.71</td> <td align="center">10,960</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Fuerteventura.svg" class="image"><img alt="Flag of Fuerteventura.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Fuerteventura.svg/50px-Flag_of_Fuerteventura.svg.png" width="50" height="33" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Fuerteventura.svg/75px-Flag_of_Fuerteventura.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Fuerteventura.svg/100px-Flag_of_Fuerteventura.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500"/></a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Fuerteventura.svg" class="image"><img alt="Coat of Arms of Fuerteventura.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Coat_of_Arms_of_Fuerteventura.svg/30px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Fuerteventura.svg.png" width="30" height="39" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Coat_of_Arms_of_Fuerteventura.svg/45px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Fuerteventura.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Coat_of_Arms_of_Fuerteventura.svg/60px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Fuerteventura.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="464" data-file-height="608"/></a></td> <td align="left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuerteventura" title="Fuerteventura">Fuerteventura</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_del_Rosario" title="Puerto del Rosario">Puerto del Rosario</a></td> <td align="center">1,660</td> <td align="center">103,492</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Gran_Canaria.svg" class="image"><img alt="Flag of Gran Canaria.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Flag_of_Gran_Canaria.svg/50px-Flag_of_Gran_Canaria.svg.png" width="50" height="33" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Flag_of_Gran_Canaria.svg/75px-Flag_of_Gran_Canaria.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Flag_of_Gran_Canaria.svg/100px-Flag_of_Gran_Canaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500"/></a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Gran_Canaria.svg" class="image"><img alt="Coat of Arms of Gran Canaria.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Coat_of_Arms_of_Gran_Canaria.svg/30px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Gran_Canaria.svg.png" width="30" height="48" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Coat_of_Arms_of_Gran_Canaria.svg/45px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Gran_Canaria.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Coat_of_Arms_of_Gran_Canaria.svg/60px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Gran_Canaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="379" data-file-height="607"/></a></td> <td align="left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Canaria" title="Gran Canaria">Gran Canaria</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Palmas_de_Gran_Canaria" title="Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" class="mw-redirect">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a></td> <td align="center">1,560.1</td> <td align="center">845,676</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bandera_La_Gomera.PNG" class="image"><img alt="Bandera La Gomera.PNG" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Bandera_La_Gomera.PNG/50px-Bandera_La_Gomera.PNG" width="50" height="31" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Bandera_La_Gomera.PNG/75px-Bandera_La_Gomera.PNG 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Bandera_La_Gomera.PNG/100px-Bandera_La_Gomera.PNG 2x" data-file-width="354" data-file-height="216"/></a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_La_Gomera.svg" class="image"><img alt="Coat of Arms of La Gomera.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Coat_of_Arms_of_La_Gomera.svg/30px-Coat_of_Arms_of_La_Gomera.svg.png" width="30" height="51" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Coat_of_Arms_of_La_Gomera.svg/45px-Coat_of_Arms_of_La_Gomera.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Coat_of_Arms_of_La_Gomera.svg/60px-Coat_of_Arms_of_La_Gomera.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="359" data-file-height="614"/></a></td> <td align="left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Gomera" title="La Gomera">La Gomera</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Sebasti%C3%A1n_de_La_Gomera" title="San Sebastián de La Gomera">San Sebastián de La Gomera</a></td> <td align="center">369.76</td> <td align="center">22,776</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Lanzarote.svg" class="image"><img alt="Flag of Lanzarote.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Flag_of_Lanzarote.svg/50px-Flag_of_Lanzarote.svg.png" width="50" height="33" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Flag_of_Lanzarote.svg/75px-Flag_of_Lanzarote.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Flag_of_Lanzarote.svg/100px-Flag_of_Lanzarote.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500"/></a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Lanzarote.svg" class="image"><img alt="Coat of Arms of Lanzarote.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Coat_of_Arms_of_Lanzarote.svg/30px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Lanzarote.svg.png" width="30" height="44" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Coat_of_Arms_of_Lanzarote.svg/45px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Lanzarote.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Coat_of_Arms_of_Lanzarote.svg/60px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Lanzarote.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="420" data-file-height="610"/></a></td> <td align="left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanzarote" title="Lanzarote">Lanzarote</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrecife" title="Arrecife">Arrecife</a></td> <td align="center">845.94</td> <td align="center">141,437</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_La_Palma_with_CoA.svg" class="image"><img alt="Flag of La Palma with CoA.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Flag_of_La_Palma_with_CoA.svg/50px-Flag_of_La_Palma_with_CoA.svg.png" width="50" height="33" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Flag_of_La_Palma_with_CoA.svg/75px-Flag_of_La_Palma_with_CoA.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Flag_of_La_Palma_with_CoA.svg/100px-Flag_of_La_Palma_with_CoA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500"/></a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_La_Palma.svg" class="image"><img alt="Coat of Arms of La Palma.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Coat_of_Arms_of_La_Palma.svg/30px-Coat_of_Arms_of_La_Palma.svg.png" width="30" height="48" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Coat_of_Arms_of_La_Palma.svg/45px-Coat_of_Arms_of_La_Palma.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Coat_of_Arms_of_La_Palma.svg/60px-Coat_of_Arms_of_La_Palma.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="379" data-file-height="607"/></a></td> <td align="left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Palma" title="La Palma">La Palma</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_La_Palma" title="Santa Cruz de La Palma">Santa Cruz de La Palma</a></td> <td align="center">708.32</td> <td align="center">86,324</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Tenerife.svg" class="image"><img alt="Flag of Tenerife.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Flag_of_Tenerife.svg/50px-Flag_of_Tenerife.svg.png" width="50" height="33" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Flag_of_Tenerife.svg/75px-Flag_of_Tenerife.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Flag_of_Tenerife.svg/100px-Flag_of_Tenerife.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500"/></a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Tenerife.svg" class="image"><img alt="Coat of Arms of Tenerife.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Coat_of_Arms_of_Tenerife.svg/30px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Tenerife.svg.png" width="30" height="34" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Coat_of_Arms_of_Tenerife.svg/45px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Tenerife.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Coat_of_Arms_of_Tenerife.svg/60px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Tenerife.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="536" data-file-height="614"/></a></td> <td align="left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife" title="Tenerife">Tenerife</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a></td> <td align="center">2,034.38</td> <td align="center">906,854</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Graciosa" title="La Graciosa" class="mw-redirect">La Graciosa</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caleta_de_Sebo" title="Caleta de Sebo">Caleta de Sebo</a></td> <td align="center">29.05</td> <td align="center">658</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alegranza" title="Alegranza">Alegranza</a></td> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="center">10.3</td> <td align="center">-</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobos_Island" title="Lobos Island">Isla de Lobos</a></td> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="center">4.5</td> <td align="center">-</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monta%C3%B1a_Clara" title="Montaña Clara">Montaña Clara</a></td> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="center">1.48</td> <td align="center">-</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_del_Este" title="Roque del Este">Roque del Este</a></td> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="center">0.06</td> <td align="center">-</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="left"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_del_Oeste" title="Roque del Oeste">Roque del Oeste</a></td> <td align="center">-</td> <td align="center">0.015</td> <td align="center">-</td> </tr> </table> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Economy">Economy</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Economy">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="hatnote boilerplate seealso">See also: <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_based_in_the_Canary_Islands" title="List of companies based in the Canary Islands">List of companies based in the Canary Islands</a></div> <table class="toccolours" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="float:right; margin:0 0 1em 1em; font-size:95%;"> <caption><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_the_Canary_Islands" title="Tourism in the Canary Islands">Tourism in the Canary Islands</a><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span>[</span>51<span>]</span></a></sup></caption> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">Year</th> <th style="text-align:center;">Visitors</th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"> <hr/></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">2009<br/> <small>(Jan-Jun)</small></th> <th>4,002,013</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">2008</th> <th>9,210,509</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">2007</th> <th>9,326,116</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">2006</th> <th>9,530,039</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">2005</th> <th>9,276,963</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">2004</th> <th>9,427,265</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">2003</th> <th>9,836,785</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">2002</th> <th>9,778,512</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">2001</th> <th>10,137,205</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">2000</th> <th>9,975,977</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">1993</th> <th>6,545,396</th> <td colspan="3"> <hr/></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">Largest by<br/> Country <small>(2008)</small></th> <th style="text-align:center;">Population</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">Germany</th> <th>2,498,847</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center;">United Kingdom</th> <th>3,355,942</th> </tr> </table> <div class="thumb tleft"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dunas_de_Maspalomas.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Dunas_de_Maspalomas.jpg/200px-Dunas_de_Maspalomas.jpg" width="200" height="110" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Dunas_de_Maspalomas.jpg/300px-Dunas_de_Maspalomas.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Dunas_de_Maspalomas.jpg/400px-Dunas_de_Maspalomas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1268"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dunas_de_Maspalomas.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> The dunes of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maspalomas" title="Maspalomas">Maspalomas</a> in <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Canaria" title="Gran Canaria">Gran Canaria</a> is one of the tourist attractions</div> </div> </div> <p>The economy is based primarily on <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Spain" title="Tourism in Spain">tourism</a>, which makes up 32% of the GDP. The Canaries receive about 12 million tourists per year. Construction makes up nearly 20% of the GDP and tropical agriculture, primarily bananas and tobacco, are grown for export to Europe and the Americas. Ecologists are concerned that the resources, especially in the more <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arid" title="Arid">arid</a> islands, are being <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overexploited" title="Overexploited" class="mw-redirect">overexploited</a> but there are still many agricultural resources like tomatoes, potatoes, onions, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal" title="Cochineal">cochineal</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarcane" title="Sugarcane">sugarcane</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grape" title="Grape">grapes</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine" title="Vine">vines</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_dactylifera" title="Phoenix dactylifera" class="mw-redirect">dates</a>, oranges, lemons, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus" title="Ficus">figs</a>, wheat, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barley" title="Barley">barley</a>, maize, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot" title="Apricot">apricots</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach" title="Peach">peaches</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond" title="Almond">almonds</a>.</p> <p>The economy is <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">€</a> 25 billion (2001 GDP figures). The islands experienced continuous growth during a 20-year period, up until 2001, at a rate of approximately 5% annually. This growth was fueled mainly by huge amounts of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Direct_Investment" title="Foreign Direct Investment" class="mw-redirect">Foreign Direct Investment</a>, mostly to develop tourism real estate (hotels and apartments), and European Funds (near €11 billion euro in the period from 2000 to 2007), since the Canary Islands are labelled Region Objective 1 (eligible for euro structural funds).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Additionally, the EU allows the Canary Islands Government to offer special tax concessions for investors who incorporate under the Zona Especial Canaria (ZEC) regime and create more than 5 jobs.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p> <p>Spain gave permission in August 2014 for <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repsol" title="Repsol">Repsol</a> and its partners to explore oil and gas prospects off the Canary Islands, involving an investment of €7.5 billion over four years, commencing at the end of 2016. Repsol at the time said the area could ultimately produce 100,000 barrels of oil a day, which would meet 10 percent of Spain's energy needs.<sup id="cite_ref-RepsolCanary_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RepsolCanary-52"><span>[</span>52<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>The Canary Islands have great natural attractions, climate and beaches make the islands a major tourist destination, being visited each year by about 12 million people (11,986,059 in 2007, noting 29% of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">Britons</a>, 22% of Spanish, not residents of the Canaries, and 21% of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germans</a>). Among the islands, Tenerife has the largest number of tourists received annually, followed by Gran Canaria and Lanzarote.<sup id="cite_ref-gobiernodecanarias1_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gobiernodecanarias1-7"><span>[</span>7<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-webtenerife1_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-webtenerife1-8"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a></sup> The archipelago's principal tourist attraction is the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide_National_Park" title="Teide National Park">Teide National Park</a> (in Tenerife) where the highest mountain in Spain and third largest volcano in the world (Mount <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide" title="Teide">Teide</a>), receives over 2.8 million visitors annually.<sup id="cite_ref-webtenerife2_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-webtenerife2-53"><span>[</span>53<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>The combination of high mountains, proximity to Europe, and clean air has made the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_de_los_Muchachos" title="Roque de los Muchachos">Roque de los Muchachos</a> peak (on La Palma island) a leading location for <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope" title="Telescope">telescopes</a> like the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantecan" title="Grantecan" class="mw-redirect">Grantecan</a>.</p> <p>The islands are outside the European Union customs territory and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAT" title="VAT" class="mw-redirect">VAT</a> area, though politically within the EU. Instead of VAT there is a local Sales Tax (IGIC) which has a general rate of 7%, an increased tax rate of 13.5%, a reduced tax rate of 3% and a zero tax rate for certain basic need products and services.</p> <p>Canarian time is <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_Time" title="Western European Time">Western European Time</a> (WET) (or <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time" title="Greenwich Mean Time">GMT</a>; in summer one hour ahead of GMT). So Canarian time is one hour behind that of mainland Spain and the same as that of the UK, Ireland and Portugal all year round.</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Transport">Transport</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Transport">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The Canary Islands have eight airports altogether, two of the main ports of Spain, and an extensive network of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highways_in_Spain" title="Highways in Spain">autopistas</a> (highways) and other roads. For a road map see multimap.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span>[</span>54<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>There are large ferry boats that link islands as well as fast ferries linking most of the islands. Both types can transport large numbers of passengers and cargo (including vehicles). Fast ferries are made of aluminium and powered by modern and efficient diesel engines, while conventional ferries have a steel hull and are powered by heavy oil. Fast ferries travel relatively quickly (in excess of 30 knots) and are a faster method of transportation than the conventional ferry (some 20 knots). A typical ferry ride between La Palma and Tenerife may take up to eight hours or more while a fast ferry takes about 2 and a half hours and between Tenerife and Gran Canaria can be about one hour.</p> <p>The largest airport is the Gran Canaria airport, with about 10,000,000 passengers. It is also the 5th largest airport in Spain. The biggest port is in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. It is an important port for commerce with Europe, Africa and the Americas. It is the 4th biggest commercial port in Spain with more than 1,400,000 TEU's. The largest commercial companies of the world, including MSC and Maersk, operate here. In this port there is an international post of the Red Cross, one of only four points like this all around the world. Tenerife has two airports, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_North_Airport" title="Tenerife North Airport">Tenerife North Airport</a> (4,048,281 passengers) and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_South_Airport" title="Tenerife South Airport">Tenerife South Airport</a> (6,939,168 passengers).<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span>[</span>55<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>Canary Islands has an input of 16,874,532 passengers. The two main islands (Tenerife and Gran Canaria) receive the greatest number of passengers; Tenerife 6,204,499 passengers and Gran Canaria 5,011,176 passengers.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span>[</span>56<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>The <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Las_Palmas" title="Port of Las Palmas">port of Las Palmas</a> is first in freight traffic in the islands,<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span>[</span>57<span>]</span></a></sup> while the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife">port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a> is the first fishing port with approximately 7,500 tons of fish caught, according to the Spanish government publication Statistical Yearbook of State Ports. Similarly, it is the second port in Spain as regards ship traffic, only surpassed by the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Algeciras" title="Port of Algeciras">Port of Algeciras</a> Bay.<sup id="cite_ref-puertos.es_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-puertos.es-58"><span>[</span>58<span>]</span></a></sup> The port's facilities include a border inspection post (BIP) approved by the European Union, which is responsible for inspecting all types of imports from third countries or exports to countries outside the European Economic Area. The port of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Cristianos" title="Los Cristianos">Los Cristianos</a> (Tenerife) has the greatest number of passengers recorded in the Canary Islands, followed by the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.<sup id="cite_ref-www2.gobiernodecanarias.org_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www2.gobiernodecanarias.org-59"><span>[</span>59<span>]</span></a></sup> The Port of Las Palmas is the third port in the islands in passengers and first in number of vehicles transported.<sup id="cite_ref-www2.gobiernodecanarias.org_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www2.gobiernodecanarias.org-59"><span>[</span>59<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Rail_transport">Rail transport</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Rail transport">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>The <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_Tram" title="Tenerife Tram">Tenerife Tram</a> opened in 2007 and the only one in the Canary Islands, travelling between the cities of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Crist%C3%B3bal_de_La_Laguna" title="San Cristóbal de La Laguna">San Cristóbal de La Laguna</a>. It is currently planned to have three lines in the Canary Islands (two in Tenerife and one in Gran Canaria). The planned Gran Canaria tram route will be from <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Palmas" title="Las Palmas">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a> to <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maspalomas" title="Maspalomas">Maspalomas</a> (south).<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span>[</span>60<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Airports">Airports</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Airports">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_South_Airport" title="Tenerife South Airport">Tenerife South Airport</a> - Tenerife</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_North_Airport" title="Tenerife North Airport">Tenerife North Airport</a> - Tenerife</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanzarote_Airport" title="Lanzarote Airport">Lanzarote Airport</a> - Lanzarote</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuerteventura_Airport" title="Fuerteventura Airport">Fuerteventura Airport</a> - Fuerteventura</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Canaria_Airport" title="Gran Canaria Airport">Gran Canaria Airport</a> - Gran Canaria</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Palma_Airport" title="La Palma Airport">La Palma Airport</a> - La Palma</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Gomera_Airport" title="La Gomera Airport">La Gomera Airport</a> - La Gomera</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hierro_Airport" title="El Hierro Airport">El Hierro Airport</a> - El Hierro</li> </ul> <p><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span>[</span>61<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Ports">Ports</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Ports">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul> <li>Port of Puerto del Rosario - Fuerteventura</li> <li>Port of Arrecife - Lanzarote</li> <li>Port of Santa Cruz de La Palma - La Palma</li> <li>Port of San Sebastián de La Gomera - La Gomera</li> <li>Port of La Estaca - El Hierro</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Las_Palmas" title="Port of Las Palmas">Port of Las Palmas</a> - Gran Canaria</li> <li>Port of Agaete - Gran Canaria</li> <li>Port of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Cristianos" title="Los Cristianos">Los Cristianos</a> - Tenerife</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a> - Tenerife</li> <li>Port of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garachico" title="Garachico">Garachico</a> - Tenerife</li> <li>Port of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granadilla_de_Abona" title="Granadilla de Abona">Granadilla</a> - Tenerife</li> </ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Wildlife">Wildlife</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Wildlife">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2012-01-10_14-53-40_Spain_Canarias_Cofete.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/2012-01-10_14-53-40_Spain_Canarias_Cofete.jpg/220px-2012-01-10_14-53-40_Spain_Canarias_Cofete.jpg" width="220" height="147" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/2012-01-10_14-53-40_Spain_Canarias_Cofete.jpg/330px-2012-01-10_14-53-40_Spain_Canarias_Cofete.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/2012-01-10_14-53-40_Spain_Canarias_Cofete.jpg/440px-2012-01-10_14-53-40_Spain_Canarias_Cofete.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4112" data-file-height="2741"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2012-01-10_14-53-40_Spain_Canarias_Cofete.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_canariensis" title="Euphorbia canariensis">Canary Island spurge</a> in Fuerteventura</div> </div> </div> <p>The official symbols from nature associated with Canary Islands are the bird <i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serinus_canaria" title="Serinus canaria" class="mw-redirect">Serinus canaria</a></i> (canary) and the <i><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_canariensis" title="Phoenix canariensis">Phoenix canariensis</a></i> palm.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span>[</span>62<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Terrestrial_wildlife">Terrestrial wildlife</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Terrestrial wildlife">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="hatnote boilerplate seealso">See also: <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-marine_molluscs_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="List of non-marine molluscs of the Canary Islands">List of non-marine molluscs of the Canary Islands</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reptiles_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="List of reptiles of the Canary Islands">List of reptiles of the Canary Islands</a></div> <p>With a range of habitats, the Canary Islands exhibit diverse plant species. The bird life includes European and African species, such as the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-bellied_sandgrouse" title="Black-bellied sandgrouse">black-bellied sandgrouse</a>; and a rich variety of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemism" title="Endemism">endemic</a> (local) taxa including the:</p> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_canary" title="Atlantic canary">Canary</a></li> <li>Graja, a subspecies of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-billed_chough" title="Red-billed chough">red-billed chough</a> endemic to La Palma</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_chaffinch" title="Blue chaffinch">Blue chaffinch</a> (endemic to Tenerife and Gran Canaria)</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands_chiffchaff" title="Canary Islands chiffchaff">Canary Islands chiffchaff</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuerteventura_chat" title="Fuerteventura chat" class="mw-redirect">Fuerteventura chat</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_goldcrest" title="Tenerife goldcrest">Tenerife goldcrest</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Palma_chaffinch" title="La Palma chaffinch">La Palma chaffinch</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_Egyptian_vulture" title="Canarian Egyptian vulture" class="mw-redirect">Canarian Egyptian vulture</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolle%27s_pigeon" title="Bolle's pigeon">Bolle's pigeon</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_pigeon" title="Laurel pigeon">Laurel pigeon</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_swift" title="Plain swift">Plain swift</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houbara_bustard" title="Houbara bustard">Houbara bustard</a></li> <li>†<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands_oystercatcher" title="Canary Islands oystercatcher">Canary Islands oystercatcher</a> (extinct)</li> </ul> <p>Terrestrial fauna includes <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko" title="Gecko">geckos</a> (such as the striped <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands_gecko&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Canary Islands gecko (page does not exist)">Canary Islands gecko</a>) and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_lizards" title="Wall lizards" class="mw-redirect">wall lizards</a>, and three endemic species of recently rediscovered and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critically_endangered" title="Critically endangered">critically endangered</a> giant lizard: the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hierro_giant_lizard" title="El Hierro giant lizard">El Hierro giant lizard</a> (or <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_Chico_de_Salmor_giant_lizard" title="Roque Chico de Salmor giant lizard">Roque Chico de Salmor giant lizard</a>), <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Gomera_giant_lizard" title="La Gomera giant lizard">La Gomera giant lizard</a>, and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Palma_giant_lizard" title="La Palma giant lizard">La Palma giant lizard</a>. Mammals include the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_shrew" title="Canarian shrew">Canarian shrew</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_big-eared_bat" title="Canary big-eared bat">Canary big-eared bat</a>, the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_hedgehog" title="Algerian hedgehog" class="mw-redirect">Algerian hedgehog</a> (which may have been introduced) and the more recently introduced <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouflon" title="Mouflon">mouflon</a>. Some endemic mammals, the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_mouse" title="Lava mouse">lava mouse</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_giant_rat" title="Tenerife giant rat">Tenerife giant rat</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Canaria_giant_rat" title="Gran Canaria giant rat">Gran Canaria giant rat</a>, are extinct, as are the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands_quail" title="Canary Islands quail">Canary Islands quail</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-legged_bunting" title="Long-legged bunting">long-legged bunting</a>, and the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Canary_Islands_chiffchaff" title="Eastern Canary Islands chiffchaff">eastern Canary Islands chiffchaff</a>.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Marine_life">Marine life</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Marine life">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_life_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="Marine life of the Canary Islands">Marine life of the Canary Islands</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caretta_caretta_060417w2.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Caretta_caretta_060417w2.jpg/200px-Caretta_caretta_060417w2.jpg" width="200" height="133" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Caretta_caretta_060417w2.jpg/300px-Caretta_caretta_060417w2.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Caretta_caretta_060417w2.jpg/400px-Caretta_caretta_060417w2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1296" data-file-height="864"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caretta_caretta_060417w2.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> A <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggerhead_sea_turtle" title="Loggerhead sea turtle">loggerhead sea turtle</a>, by far the most common species of marine turtle in the Canary Islands.</div> </div> </div> <p>The marine life found in the Canary Islands is also varied, being a combination of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">North Atlantic</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea" title="Mediterranean Sea">Mediterranean</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemism" title="Endemism">endemic</a> species. In recent years, the increasing popularity of both <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuba_diving" title="Scuba diving">scuba diving</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_photography" title="Underwater photography">underwater photography</a> have provided biologists with much new information on the marine life of the islands.</p> <p>Fish species found in the islands include many species of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark" title="Shark">shark</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batoidea" title="Batoidea">ray</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moray_eel" title="Moray eel">moray eel</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparidae" title="Sparidae">bream</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carangidae" title="Carangidae">jack</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunt-fish" title="Grunt-fish" class="mw-redirect">grunt</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpionfish" title="Scorpionfish" class="mw-redirect">scorpionfish</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triggerfish" title="Triggerfish">triggerfish</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouper" title="Grouper">grouper</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goby" title="Goby">goby</a>, and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blenny" title="Blenny" class="mw-redirect">blenny</a>. In addition, there are many invertebrate species, including <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge" title="Sponge">sponge</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish" title="Jellyfish">jellyfish</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemone" title="Anemone">anemone</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab" title="Crab">crab</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollusc" title="Mollusc" class="mw-redirect">mollusc</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_urchin" title="Sea urchin">sea urchin</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish" title="Starfish">starfish</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holothuroidea" title="Holothuroidea" class="mw-redirect">sea cucumber</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral" title="Coral">coral</a>.</p> <p>There are a total of 5 different species of <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_turtle" title="Marine turtle" class="mw-redirect">marine turtle</a> that are sighted periodically in the islands, the most common of these being the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered" title="Endangered" class="mw-redirect">endangered</a> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggerhead_sea_turtle" title="Loggerhead sea turtle">loggerhead sea turtle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span>[</span>63<span>]</span></a></sup> The other four are the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_sea_turtle" title="Green sea turtle">green sea turtle</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawksbill_sea_turtle" title="Hawksbill sea turtle">hawksbill sea turtle</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherback_sea_turtle" title="Leatherback sea turtle">leatherback sea turtle</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemp%27s_ridley_sea_turtle" title="Kemp's ridley sea turtle">Kemp's ridley sea turtle</a>. Currently, there are no signs that any of these species breed in the islands, and so those seen in the water are usually <a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/migration" class="extiw" title="wikt:migration">migrating</a>. However, it is believed that some of these species may have bred in the islands in the past, and there are records of several sightings of leatherback sea turtle on beaches in Fuerteventura, adding credibility to the theory.</p> <p>Marine mammals include the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-finned_pilot_whale" title="Short-finned pilot whale">short-finned pilot whale</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_dolphin" title="Common dolphin">common</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlenose_dolphin" title="Bottlenose dolphin">bottlenose</a> dolphins. <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooded_seals" title="Hooded seals" class="mw-redirect">Hooded seals</a><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span>[</span>64<span>]</span></a></sup> have also been known to be vagrant in the Canary Islands every now and then. The Canary Islands were also formerly home to a population of the rarest <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinniped" title="Pinniped">pinniped</a> in the world, the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_monk_seal" title="Mediterranean monk seal">Mediterranean monk seal</a>.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Native_flora_gallery">Native flora gallery</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Native flora gallery">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px;"> <div style="margin:30px auto;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tajinaste_rojo.jpg" 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href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldera_de_Taburiente_National_Park" title="Caldera de Taburiente National Park">Caldera de Taburiente National Park</a> (La Palma).</div> </div> </div> <p>The Canary Islands officially has four national parks, of which two have been declared World Heritage Site by <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a>, and the other two declared a World Biosphere Reserve, these <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_parks" title="National parks" class="mw-redirect">national parks</a> are:<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span>[</span>65<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldera_de_Taburiente_National_Park" title="Caldera de Taburiente National Park">Caldera de Taburiente National Park</a> (La Palma): Created in 1954 and declared a World Biosphere Reserve in 2002. It currently covers an area of 46.9 km<sup>2</sup> (18.1 sq mi).</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garajonay_National_Park" title="Garajonay National Park">Garajonay National Park</a> (La Gomera): Created in 1981 and declared in 1986 as a World Heritage Site. Its area is 3986 hectares at the core and some areas north of the island.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timanfaya_National_Park" title="Timanfaya National Park">Timanfaya National Park</a> (Lanzarote): Created in 1974 and declared a Biosphere Reserve in 1993, together with the whole island. Occupies an area of 51.07 km (31.73 mi) ², is located in the southwest of the island.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide_National_Park" title="Teide National Park">Teide National Park</a> (Tenerife): Created in 1954, was declared a World Heritage Site in 2007. It covers an area of 18,990 hectares, is the oldest and largest national park in the Canary Islands and one of the oldest in Spain. The Teide in 2010 became the most visited national park in Europe and second worldwide.<sup id="cite_ref-diariodeavisos.com_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-diariodeavisos.com-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sanborondon.info_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sanborondon.info-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup> Located in the geographic center of the island is the most visited National Park in Spain. The highlight is the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide" title="Teide">Teide</a> at 3,718 meters altitude, is the highest elevation of the country and the third largest volcano on Earth from its base. Teide <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Park" title="National Park" class="mw-redirect">National Park</a> was declared in 2007 as one of the 12 Treasures of Spain.</li> </ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Sports">Sports</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Sports">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RodriguezLopez2008.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/RodriguezLopez2008.jpg/200px-RodriguezLopez2008.jpg" width="200" height="150" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/RodriguezLopez2008.jpg/300px-RodriguezLopez2008.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/RodriguezLopez2008.jpg/400px-RodriguezLopez2008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RodriguezLopez2008.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio_Heliodoro_Rodr%C3%ADguez_L%C3%B3pez" title="Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez López">Heliodoro Rodríguez López Stadium</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Estadiogc7septiembre2008.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Estadiogc7septiembre2008.jpg/200px-Estadiogc7septiembre2008.jpg" width="200" height="150" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Estadiogc7septiembre2008.jpg/300px-Estadiogc7septiembre2008.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Estadiogc7septiembre2008.jpg/400px-Estadiogc7septiembre2008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Estadiogc7septiembre2008.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio_Gran_Canaria" title="Estadio Gran Canaria">Gran Canaria Stadium</a>, the biggest sports venue of Canary Islands.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span>[</span>66<span>]</span></a></sup></div> </div> </div> <p>A unique form of wrestling known as <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_wrestling" title="Canarian wrestling">Canarian wrestling</a> (<i>lucha canaria</i>) has opponents stand in a special area called a "terrero" and try to throw each other to the ground using strength and quick movements.<sup id="cite_ref-ctspanish.com_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ctspanish.com-67"><span>[</span>67<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>Another sport is the "game of the sticks" where opponents fence with long sticks. This may have come about from the shepherds of the islands who would challenge each other using their long walking sticks.<sup id="cite_ref-ctspanish.com_67-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ctspanish.com-67"><span>[</span>67<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>Another sport is called the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salto_del_pastor" title="Salto del pastor">shepherd's jump</a> (<i>salto del pastor</i>). This involves using a long stick to vault over an open area. This sport possibly evolved from the shepherd's need to occasionally get over an open area in the hills as they were tending their sheep.<sup id="cite_ref-ctspanish.com_67-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ctspanish.com-67"><span>[</span>67<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>The two main <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a> teams in the archipelago are: the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Tenerife" title="CD Tenerife">CD Tenerife</a> (founded in 1912) and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UD_Las_Palmas" title="UD Las Palmas">UD Las Palmas</a> (founded in 1949).</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Notable_athletes">Notable athletes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Notable athletes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Garc%C3%ADa" title="Nicolás García">Nicolás García</a> Hemme, born 20 June 1988 in <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Palmas_de_Gran_Canaria" title="Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" class="mw-redirect">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a>, Canary Islands, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_London_Olympics" title="2012 London Olympics" class="mw-redirect">2012 London Olympics</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taekwondo" title="Taekwondo">Taekwondo</a> Silver Medalist in Men's Welterweight category (-80 kg).</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Cabrera" title="Al Cabrera">Alfredo Cabrera</a>, born 1881; <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortstop" title="Shortstop">shortstop</a> for the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> in 1913</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Rodr%C3%ADguez" title="Sergio Rodríguez">Sergio Rodríguez</a>, born in <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Crist%C3%B3bal_de_La_Laguna" title="San Cristóbal de La Laguna">San Cristóbal de La Laguna</a>, played <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_guard" title="Point guard">point guard</a> for the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Trail_Blazers" title="Portland Trail Blazers">Portland Trail Blazers</a>, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_Kings" title="Sacramento Kings">Sacramento Kings</a>, and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Knicks" title="New York Knicks">New York Knicks</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Silva" title="David Silva">David Silva</a>, born in <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arguinegu%C3%ADn" title="Arguineguín">Arguineguín</a> played <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">association football</a> for <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_City_FC" title="Manchester City FC" class="mw-redirect">Manchester City FC</a>, member of the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2010 FIFA World Cup">2010 FIFA World Cup</a> champion <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_football_team" title="Spanish football team" class="mw-redirect">Spanish football team</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Valer%C3%B3n" title="Juan Carlos Valerón">Juan Carlos Valerón</a>, born in <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arguinegu%C3%ADn" title="Arguineguín">Arguineguín</a> played <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">association football</a> for <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportivo_La_Coru%C3%B1a" title="Deportivo La Coruña" class="mw-redirect">Deportivo La Coruña</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Ledesma" title="Pedro Rodríguez Ledesma" class="mw-redirect">Pedro Rodríguez</a>, born in <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a>, plays <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">association football</a> for <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Barcelona" title="FC Barcelona">FC Barcelona</a>, member of the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2010 FIFA World Cup">2010 FIFA World Cup</a> champion <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_football_team" title="Spanish football team" class="mw-redirect">Spanish football team</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Su%C3%A1rez_Navarro" title="Carla Suárez Navarro">Carla Suárez Navarro</a>, born in <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Palmas_de_Gran_Canaria" title="Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" class="mw-redirect">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a>, professional tennis player</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_Tirados" title="Paola Tirados">Paola Tirados</a>, born in <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Palmas_de_Gran_Canaria" title="Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" class="mw-redirect">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a>, synchronized swimmer, who participated in the Olympic Games of 2000, 2004 and 2008. She won the silver medal in Beijing in 2008 in the team competition category.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%A9" title="Jesé">Jesé</a>, born in <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Palmas_de_Gran_Canaria" title="Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" class="mw-redirect">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a>, plays <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">association football</a> for <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Madrid_C.F." title="Real Madrid C.F.">Real Madrid C.F.</a></li> </ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="noprint portal tright" style="border:solid #aaa 1px;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em"> <table style="background:#f9f9f9;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;max-width:175px"> <tr style="vertical-align:middle"> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Spain.svg" class="image"><img alt="Portal icon" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/32px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" width="32" height="21" class="noviewer thumbborder" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/48px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/64px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500"/></a></td> <td style="padding:0 0.2em;vertical-align:middle;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Spain" title="Portal:Spain">Spain portal</a></td> </tr> <tr style="vertical-align:middle"> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ic%C3%B4ne_Ile.svg" class="image"><img alt="Portal icon" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Ic%C3%B4ne_Ile.svg/28px-Ic%C3%B4ne_Ile.svg.png" width="28" height="28" class="noviewer" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Ic%C3%B4ne_Ile.svg/42px-Ic%C3%B4ne_Ile.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Ic%C3%B4ne_Ile.svg/56px-Ic%C3%B4ne_Ile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200"/></a></td> <td style="padding:0 0.2em;vertical-align:middle;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Islands" title="Portal:Islands">Islands portal</a></td> </tr> </table> </div> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="History_2">History</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: History">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramids_of_G%C3%BC%C3%ADmar" title="Pyramids of Güímar">Pyramids of Güímar</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Acentejo" title="First Battle of Acentejo">First Battle of Acentejo</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Acentejo" title="Second Battle of Acentejo">Second Battle of Acentejo</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_(1797)" title="Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1797)">Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1797)</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanausu" title="Tanausu">Tanausu</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster" title="Tenerife airport disaster">Tenerife airport disaster</a>; prior to the <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_attacks" title="9/11 attacks" class="mw-redirect">9/11 attacks</a>, the deadliest commercial <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_incidents" title="Aviation accidents and incidents">aviation disaster</a> in history.</li> </ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Geography_2">Geography</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Geography">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andr%C3%A9s,_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="San Andrés, Santa Cruz de Tenerife">San Andrés</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Matanza_de_Acentejo,_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="La Matanza de Acentejo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife" class="mw-redirect">La Matanza de Acentejo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Llanos_de_Aridane" title="Los Llanos de Aridane">Los Llanos de Aridane</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orotava_Valley" title="Orotava Valley">Orotava Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatiza" title="Guatiza">Guatiza</a> (Lanzarote)</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja" title="Cumbre Vieja">Cumbre Vieja</a>, a volcano on La Palma</li> </ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Culture">Culture</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Culture">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_Spanish" title="Canarian Spanish">Canarian Spanish</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_cuisine" title="Canarian cuisine">Canarian cuisine</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="Military of the Canary Islands">Military of the Canary Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_Candelaria" title="Virgin of Candelaria">Virgin of Candelaria</a> (Patron saint of Canary Islands)</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbo_Gomero_language" title="Silbo Gomero language" class="mw-redirect">Silbo Gomero language</a>, a <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language" title="Whistled language">whistled language</a>, is an indigenous language, whose existence was known since Roman times.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle%C3%B1o" title="Isleño">Isleños</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="Music of the Canary Islands">Music of the Canary Islands</a></li> </ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Carnival">Carnival</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Carnival">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a> and <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Las_Palmas" title="Carnival of Las Palmas">Carnival of Las Palmas</a> are one of the most famous Carnivals in Spain. It is celebrated on the streets between the months of February and March.</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="reflist references-column-width" style="-moz-column-width: 30em; -webkit-column-width: 30em; column-width: 30em; list-style-type: decimal;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-diariodeavisos.com-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-diariodeavisos.com_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-diariodeavisos.com_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web">Canaria de Avisos S.A. 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ROMERO, 2001. <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/8493219509" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 84-932195-0-9</a></li> <li>Martin Wiemers: <i>The butterflies of the Canary Islands. - A survey on their distribution, biology and ecology (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea)</i> - Linneana Belgica 15 (1995): 63-84 & 87–118 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/http://www.researchgate.net/publication/236869641_The_butterflies_of_the_Canary_Islands._A_survey_on_their_distribution_biology_and_ecology_(Lepidoptera_Papilionoidea_and_Hesperioidea)/links/0c960519bbc8e48a1b000000">pdf</a></li> </ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Further_reading">Further reading</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul> <li>Borgesen, F. 1929. Marine algae from the Canary Islands. III Rhodophyceae. Part II. <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonemiales" title="Cryptonemiales">Cryptonemiales</a>, Gigartinales, and Rhodymeniales. <i>Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Biologiske Meddelelser.</i> <b>8</b>: 1 – 97.</li> <li>Paegelow, Claus: Bibliography Canary Islands, 2009, <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9783000286766" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 978-3-00-028676-6</a></li> </ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Islands&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <table class="metadata plainlinks mbox-small" style="padding:0.25em 0.5em 0.5em 0.75em;border:1px solid #aaa;background:#f9f9f9;"> <tr> <td colspan="2" 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href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands_in_pre-colonial_times" title="Canary Islands in pre-colonial times">Pre-colonial times</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="Conquest of the Canary Islands">Conquest</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Alc%C3%A1%C3%A7ovas" title="Treaty of Alcáçovas">Treaty of Alcáçovas</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Acentejo" title="First Battle of Acentejo">First Battle of Acentejo</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="Kingdom of the Canary Islands">Kingdom of the Canary Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aguere" title="Battle of Aguere">Battle of Aguere</a></li> <li><a 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Parliament">Canarian Parliament</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> <td class="navbox-image" rowspan="15" style="width:0%;padding:0px 0px 0px 2px"> <div> <div class="floatright"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canary_Islands_CoA.svg" class="image" title="G-clef"><img alt="G-clef" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Canary_Islands_CoA.svg/105px-Canary_Islands_CoA.svg.png" width="105" height="86" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Canary_Islands_CoA.svg/158px-Canary_Islands_CoA.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Canary_Islands_CoA.svg/210px-Canary_Islands_CoA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="875" data-file-height="715"/></a></div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group">Languages</th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_Spanish" title="Canarian Spanish">Canarian</a> (<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>)</li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbo_Gomero_language" title="Silbo Gomero language" class="mw-redirect">Gomeran Whistle</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group">Mythology</th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garajonay_National_Park#Gara_and_Jonay" title="Garajonay National Park">Gara and Jonay</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acham%C3%A1n" title="Achamán">Achamán</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achuguayo" title="Achuguayo">Achuguayo</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achuhucanac" title="Achuhucanac">Achuhucanac</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaxiraxi" title="Chaxiraxi">Chaxiraxi</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chijoraji" title="Chijoraji">Chijoraji</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayota" title="Guayota">Guayota</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magec" title="Magec">Magec</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxios" title="Maxios">Maxios</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibicena" title="Tibicena">Tibicena</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group">Sports</th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_Tenerife#Bola_canaria" title="Sport in Tenerife">Bola canaria</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_wrestling" title="Canarian wrestling">Canarian wrestling</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juego_del_Palo" title="Juego del Palo" class="mw-redirect">Juego del Palo</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salto_del_pastor" title="Salto del pastor">Salto del pastor</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Isla_de_Lanzarote" title="Open Isla de Lanzarote">Open Lanzarote Island</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Costa_Adeje_%E2%80%93_Isla_de_Tenerife" title="Open Costa Adeje – Isla de Tenerife">Open Costa Adeje</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_cuisine" title="Canarian cuisine">Cuisine</a></th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almogrote" title="Almogrote">Almogrote</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arepa" title="Arepa">Canarian arepa</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_wrinkly_potatoes" title="Canarian wrinkly potatoes">Canarian wrinkly potatoes</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gofio" title="Gofio">Gofio</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvasia" title="Malvasia">Malvasia</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorero" title="Majorero">Majorero</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_syrup" title="Palm syrup">Miel de palma</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojo_(sauce)" title="Mojo (sauce)">Mojo</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteles" title="Pasteles">Pasteles</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropa_vieja" title="Ropa vieja">Ropa vieja</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sancocho" title="Sancocho">Sancocho</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangria" title="Sangria">Sangria</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_beer#Canarias_Brewery" title="Tropical beer" class="mw-redirect">Tropical beer</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_wine" title="Spanish wine">Wines</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="Music of the Canary Islands">Musical instruments</a></th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A1caras" title="Chácaras">Chácaras</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timple" title="Timple">Timple</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td 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href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_Candelaria" title="Virgin of Candelaria">Virgin of Candelaria</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristo_de_La_Laguna" title="Cristo de La Laguna">Cristo de La Laguna</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akelarre_(witchcraft)" title="Akelarre (witchcraft)">Akelarre</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group">Symbols places of the Canary Islands</th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide" title="Teide">Teide</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditorio_de_Tenerife" title="Auditorio de Tenerife">Auditorio de Tenerife</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garajonay_National_Park" title="Garajonay National Park">Garajonay</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldera_de_Taburiente" title="Caldera de Taburiente" class="mw-redirect">Caldera de Taburiente</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"> <div><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canarian_culture" title="Category:Canarian culture">Category</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="navbox" style="border-spacing:0"> <tr> <td style="padding:2px"> <table class="nowraplinks collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"> <tr> <th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"> <div class="plainlinks hlist navbar mini"> <ul> <li class="nv-view"><a 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class="flagicon"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" width="23" height="12" class="thumbborder" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500"/> </span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/23px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png" width="23" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/35px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/45px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600"/> </span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Sudan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sudan.svg.png" width="23" height="12" class="thumbborder" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Sudan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sudan.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Sudan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Sudan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="300"/> </span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png" width="23" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800"/> </span><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partially_recognized_state" title="Partially recognized state" class="mw-redirect">Partially recognized state</a></th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul> <li><span class="flagicon"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahrawi_Arab_Democratic_Republic" title="Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic"><img alt="Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Flag_of_the_Sahrawi_Arab_Democratic_Republic.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Sahrawi_Arab_Democratic_Republic.svg.png" width="23" height="12" class="thumbborder" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Flag_of_the_Sahrawi_Arab_Democratic_Republic.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Sahrawi_Arab_Democratic_Republic.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150325213625im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Flag_of_the_Sahrawi_Arab_Democratic_Republic.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Sahrawi_Arab_Democratic_Republic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="300"/></a></span> <a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahrawi_Arab_Democratic_Republic" title="Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic">Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_(subdivision)" title="Territory (subdivision)">Territories</a></th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"></div> <table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a>/<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SADR" title="SADR" class="mw-redirect">SADR</a></th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Sahara" title="Western Sahara">Western Sahara</a><sup>1</sup></div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a></th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceuta" title="Ceuta">Ceuta</a><sup>2</sup></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla" title="Melilla">Melilla</a><sup>2</sup></li> <li><strong class="selflink">Canary Islands</strong></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chafarinas_Islands" title="Chafarinas Islands">Chafarinas Islands</a><sup>2</sup></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1%C3%B3n_de_Alhucemas" title="Peñón de Alhucemas">Alhucemas</a><sup>2</sup></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1%C3%B3n_de_V%C3%A9lez_de_la_Gomera" title="Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera">Vélez de la Gomera</a><sup>2</sup></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a></th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira" title="Madeira">Madeira</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a>/<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a></th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hala%27ib_Triangle" title="Hala'ib Triangle">Hala'ib Triangle</a><sup>3</sup></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi_Halfa_Salient" title="Wadi Halfa Salient">Wadi Halfa Salient</a><sup>3</sup></li> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil" title="Bir Tawil">Bir Tawil</a><sup>4</sup></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group"><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a>/<a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudan" title="South Sudan">South Sudan</a></th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150325213625/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyei_Area" title="Abyei Area" class="mw-redirect">Abyei Area</a><sup>5</sup></li> <li><a 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title="Canarias – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia">Interlingua</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B_%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%8A%D0%B0%D0%B4%C3%A6%D1%85%D1%82%C3%A6" title="Канары сакъадæхтæ – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os">Ирон</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zu"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iziqhingi_iKhaneli" title="Iziqhingi iKhaneli – Zulu" lang="zu" hreflang="zu">IsiZulu</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanar%C3%ADeyjar" title="Kanaríeyjar – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is">Íslenska</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isole_Canarie" title="Isole Canarie – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it">Italiano</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%A0%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D" title="האיים הקנריים – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he">עברית</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapuloan_Canary" title="Kapuloan Canary – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv">Basa Jawa</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%AB%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98" title="კანარის კუნძულები – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka">ქართული</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B" title="Канар аралдары – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk">Қазақша</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarias" title="Canarias – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw">Kernowek</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visiwa_vya_Kanari" title="Visiwa vya Kanari – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw">Kiswahili</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaries" title="Canaries – Haitian" lang="ht" hreflang="ht">Kreyòl ayisyen</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girav%C3%AAn_Qenariy%C3%AA" title="Giravên Qenariyê – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku">Kurdî</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lad"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://lad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanarias" title="Kanarias – Ladino" lang="lad" hreflang="lad">Ladino</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle" title="featured article"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canariae_Insulae" title="Canariae Insulae – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la">Latina</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan%C4%81riju_Salas" title="Kanāriju Salas – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv">Latviešu</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanaresch_Inselen" title="Kanaresch Inselen – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanar%C5%B3_salos" title="Kanarų salos – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt">Lietuvių</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoe_Canaie" title="Isoe Canaie – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij">Ligure</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarische_eilenj" title="Canarische eilenj – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li">Limburgs</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan%C3%A1ri-szigetek" title="Kanári-szigetek – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu">Magyar</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8" title="Канарски Острови – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk">Македонски</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islas_Canarias" title="Islas Canarias – Maori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi">Māori</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%85%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%B9" title="कॅनरी द्वीपसमूह – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr">मराठी</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A8_%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%99%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98" title="კანარიშ კოკეფი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf">მარგალური</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89" title="جزر الكنارى – Egyptian Spoken Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz">مصرى</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepulauan_Canaria" title="Kepulauan Canaria – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms">Bahasa Melayu</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%80%E1%80%94%E1%80%B1%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AE%E1%80%80%E1%80%BB%E1%80%BD%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%85%E1%80%AF" title="ကနေရီကျွန်းစု – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nah"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://nah.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarias" title="Canarias – Nāhuatl" lang="nah" hreflang="nah">Nāhuatl</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarische_Eilanden" title="Canarische Eilanden – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl">Nederlands</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds-nl"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanariese_Eiloanden" title="Kanariese Eiloanden – Low Saxon (Netherlands)" lang="nds-NL" hreflang="nds-NL">Nedersaksies</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E8%AB%B8%E5%B3%B6" title="カナリア諸島 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja">日本語</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nap"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isule_Canarie" title="Isule Canarie – Neapolitan" lang="nap" hreflang="nap">Napulitano</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B3%D3%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%88" title="Канаран гӀайренаш – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce">Нохчийн</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanaaren" title="Kanaaren – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr">Nordfriisk</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanari%C3%B8yene" title="Kanariøyene – Norwegian (bokmål)" lang="no" hreflang="no">Norsk bokmål</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanari%C3%B8yane" title="Kanariøyane – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn">Norsk nynorsk</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nov"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://nov.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isles_Kanarias" title="Isles Kanarias – Novial" lang="nov" hreflang="nov">Novial</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illas_Can%C3%A0rias" title="Illas Canàrias – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc">Occitan</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanar_orollari" title="Kanar orollari – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz">Oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%AC%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%92" title="کناری جزیرے – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb">پنجابی</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Csole_Canarie" title="Ìsole Canarie – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms">Piemontèis</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyspy_Kanaryjskie" title="Wyspy Kanaryjskie – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl">Polski</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%C3%A1rias" title="Canárias – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt">Português</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulele_Canare" title="Insulele Canare – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro">Română</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanarya_wat%27akuna" title="Kanarya wat'akuna – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu">Runa Simi</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Канарские острова – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru">Русский</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Канар арыылара – Sakha" lang="sah" hreflang="sah">Саха тыла</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan%C3%A1riasullot" title="Kanáriasullot – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se">Sámegiella</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isulas_Canarias" title="Isulas Canarias – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc">Sardu</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands" title="Canary Islands – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco">Scots</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-stq"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://stq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanariske_Ailounde" title="Kanariske Ailounde – Saterland Frisian" lang="stq" hreflang="stq">Seeltersk</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nso"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands" title="Canary Islands – Northern Sotho" lang="nso" hreflang="nso">Sesotho sa Leboa</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishujt_Kanare" title="Ishujt Kanare – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq">Shqip</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isuli_Canarii" title="Isuli Canarii – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn">Sicilianu</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands" title="Canary Islands – Simple English" lang="simple" hreflang="simple">Simple English</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan%C3%A1rske_ostrovy" title="Kanárske ostrovy – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk">Slovenčina</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanarski_otoki" title="Kanarski otoki – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl">Slovenščina</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Канарска острва – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr">Српски / srpski</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanari" title="Kanari – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapuloan_Kanaria" title="Kapuloan Kanaria – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su">Basa Sunda</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanariansaaret" title="Kanariansaaret – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi">Suomi</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanarie%C3%B6arna" title="Kanarieöarna – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv">Svenska</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarias" title="Canarias – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl">Tagalog</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150325213625/https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D" title="கேனரி தீவுகள் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta">தமிழ்</a></li> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kab"><a 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