Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Vilaflor de Chasna


Vilaflor de Chasna, también conocido simplemente como Vilaflor, es un municipio perteneciente a la provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, en la isla de Tenerife —Canarias, España—.
 La capital municipal se encuentra en el casco urbano de Vilaflor, situado a 1 414 msnm.

Toponimia

Su nombre proviene de su capital municipal, siendo originalmente conocida la zona como Chasna, término de procedencia guanche que significa según algunos autores 'grada' o 'escalona'.
 Su nombre moderno aparece ya desde la segunda mitad del siglo xvi con las variantes Villaflor y Vilaflor.
 El origen de este nombre lo da a conocer Sabino Berthelot al trasmitir en su obra una leyenda según la cual un conquistador castellano exclamó «¡Vi la flor de Chasna!» al enamorarse de una joven guanche de la zona durante la conquista.8  En 2014 se aprobó por parte del Cabildo Insular el cambio de denominación del municipio por el de Vilaflor de Chasna, recuperando así su nombre original.3

Friday, December 11, 2015

Granadilla de Abona

Granadilla de Abona is a municipality of Tenerife, located in the south of the island, occupying an area of 155 square kilometers. Its population in 2013 was 17,141. In recent years, the population has greatly increased due to an influx of immigrants, many of them illegal, from Western Sahara, Colombia, Cuba, and other African and Latin American countries.

The municipality extends from the altitudinous center of the island -Mount Guajara (2,718 m, the second-highest mountain on the island, after Teide) is situated in this municipality- to the Atlantic Ocean.

Reina Sofía Airport is located in this municipality, as well as the beachside town of El Médano ("The Sand Dune"), where many important windsurfing competitions are held. La Montaña Roja ("The Red Mountain"), a volcanic cone located in El Médano, is a protected natural preserve, along with five other "espacios naturales," which comprise 25% of the municipality's total area. Plans to build an industrial and commercial port in this municipality along a 5-kilometer (3.1 mi) sector along the coast, from Barranco del Río to Montaña Pelada, have been discussed but not implemented, due to concerns about the environmental damage such a development would cause.There is a wind farm in this municipality as well.

Vilaflor, Santa Cruz de Tenerife


Vilaflor is a municipality and a village in the south-central part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province), Spain. Vilaflor, with an altitude of 1,400 m, is the highest village of Tenerife, situated south the Teide volcano. It is located 7 km north of San Miguel de Abona and 51 km southwest of the island's capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The population is 1,804 (2013) and the area is 56.26 km².