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Information about Canary Islands 

The Canary Islands are a group of islands of Spain's most famous and popular in the world, located off the northwest coast of Africa, and the Canary Islands consists of 17 Spanish island self 7 main islands are islands of them and the remaining small islands, Canary Islands, called a number of names, including the name of the happy Isles.

Canary Islands's beaches and attractive natural features made it a major tourist destination for more than 12 million visitors each year and for the islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria, welanzarot wevoirtivntora and the Canary Islands have a subtropical climate with long hot summers and warm winters mild and because of its location and the high mountains in the Canary Islands is considered a prime location for observation.

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Canary Islands

Canary Islands area around 7493 km2 and a total population in 2011 about 2 million and 117 thousand people and the official language of the Canary Islands is Spanish for the capital of the Canary Islands, share two as the capital of the Canary Islands, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas are the largest cities in the Canary Islands, Canary Islands, currency is the euro, and constitute the majority of the immigrant population of Spain, Portugal and Italy.

The seven main Canary Islands are volcanic islands and some volcanoes still active up to now and regarded as the Canary Islands is the only place in Spain that was recorded volcanic eruptions in modern times.

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Canary Islands

When you think of the name Canary Islands notify to mind those small yellow birds but the island's name is derived from the Latin language and means Isle of dogs, says one of the myths about this subject that the natives of those islands they worshiped the sea dogs without God and who were stuffing their dogs and treat them as sacred animals and when the Romans visited the island for the first time called the Canary Islands.

The Canary Islands, specifically on the island of Tenerife, the largest island in terms of population and is the first tourist destination Canary Islands tourist destinations there is Mount Teide and the third largest volcano in the world and is the largest mountain in Spain, Tenerife Island has an area of 2034 square kilometers and a population of about 907 thousand people.

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Canary Islands

Famous for the Canary Islands with the kind of sport wrestling, called Canary struggle that dates back to the year 1420, the sport of local folklore to 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 and is an endangered species and the length of those male turtles nearly three feet tall and aged between 47-67 years.

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Canary Islands

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Canary Islands

There are also in the Canary Islands 14 National Park was declared two of them a world heritage site by UNESCO and months those parks National Park on the island of Tenerife, Ted, which was established in 1954 and was declared World Heritage site in 2007 and is located on an area of 18990 hectares garden is the oldest and largest national parks in the Canary Islands is also one of the oldest national parks in Spain, and became the most visited Park Ted Park in Europe in 2011 and ranked Second worldwide.

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