Interesting information about the Canary Islands pictures

Canary Islands are a group of the most Spain Islands famous and popular in the world and is located off the northwest coast of the continent of Africa, and the Canary Islands consists of 17 island of the Spanish autonomous 7 Islands of them considered major islands and the rest are small islands, and called on the Canary Islands, a number of names, including the islands name happy.

The beaches of the Canary Islands and natural attractions attractive made it a major tourist destination for more than 12 million visitors a year, especially for the islands of Tenerife and Fuerteventura and Lanzarote and Gran Canaria, and the Canary Islands have a subtropical climate with long hot summer and warm winter mild and due to its high mountains in the Canary Islands is considered a prime location for astronomical observation .

Of the Canary Islands, an area of ​​about 7493 square kilometers and the total population in 2011 of about 2.117 million people, almost the official language of the Canary Islands are Spanish language for the capital of the Canary Islands Vti_ark two cities as the capital of the Canary Islands are the Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas, Las Palmas is the largest city in the Canary Islands, the Canary Islands currency is the euro, and constitute a majority of the immigrant population from Spain, Portugal and Italy.

When thinking of the Canary Islands name shall be notified to mind those little yellow birds, but the island's name is derived from Latin and means dogs Island, says one of the myths about the subject that the natives of those islands they worshiped sea dogs without God and they were mummified those dogs and treatment of sacred animals when the Romans visited the island for the first time fired the Canary Islands name.

Canary Islands, specifically the island of Tenerife, the largest island in terms of population, the first tourist destination of the Canary Islands frequented by tourists there is the Mount Ted is the third largest volcano in the world, which is the largest mountain in Spain, and of the island of Tenerife area of ​​2034 square kilometers and a population of about 907 000 people

Famous for the Canary Islands with some type of wrestling and it is called the struggle of the Canary date back the sport to the year 1420, and has become one of the local folklore of the Canary Islands, and fun things also in the Canary Islands scuba diving trip to enjoy watching one of the largest turtles in the world of the sport, one of the endangered species extinction and the length of an adult male of those turtles nearly three feet at the age between 47-67 years

There is also in the Canary Islands 14 national park was announced Atnyen them a World Heritage site by UNESCO and months those national Ted garden parks in the island of Tenerife, which was established in 1954 and announced the site of the World Heritage Site in 2007 and is located on 18,990 hectares and is that garden the oldest and largest national parks in the Canary Islands is also one of the oldest national parks in Spain, it became the most Ted garden park to visit in Europe in 2011 and ranked second in the world ranking.

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