Canary Islands

The Canary Islands

The Canary Islands consists Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, which read the province Palmas form, and several uninhabited rock islands of the islands Teneriffa, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro, which belong to the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife,: Alegranza, Graciosa, Montaña Clara, Roque del Este, Roque del Oeste to Lanzarote belong and to Lobos, which belongs to Fuerteventura.

The Canary Islands, are appropriate for 27 in the Atlantic ocean northwest from the African continent between that. Degree of latitude, 37 minutes, and that 29. Degree of latitude, 25 minutes north, a little more than four degrees of the turning circle of the cancer far away, that by La Havanna goes -und between that to 13. Degree of longitude, 20 minutes, and that 18. Degree of longitude, 10 minutes, west of Greenwich.
The islands owe their all year round pleasant climate, their subtropical character and their eternal spring to this situation, because the differences between the different seasons are very small. In addition they became by their situation in the Atlantic and in the proximity of the African coast nearly inevitably stations of the maritime traffic between Europe, Africa and America.
Everyone particulars of the Canary Islands, has its own unmistakable attractions and is from different and singular beauty. In the course of a set of volcanic eruptions, whose long process is not yet final, they all emerged from the tides of the sea.

One finds a whole set of landscapes: from impressive summits and mountains to the most remote valleys, between which wild-like quilts, bizarre rock, krater and forests of fairy taleful beauty lie. Each island resembles a miniature continent and their landscapes is so varied that they remind of different places of all possible areas of our planet, where both the Kiefer, the laurel tree, the palm, to which chestnuttree and the Cactus prosper magnificently.

Administratively specific characteristics, both on the distance of the European mainland to the Canaries, apply and to reasons of own historical tradition and the characteristic canary economics to attribute.(so there is not the European increase in value tax regulation for example on the Canary Islands.) Otherwise they are integrated into the European community and form one of the seventeen autonomous administrative districts of Spain.