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Mallorca, [a] or Majorca, [b] [2] [3] is the largest of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Balearic Islands have been an autonomous region of Spain since 1983. [4]
The average annual temperature in the mainland varies from less than 2.5 °C (36.5 °F) in the north of the Pyrenees, close to the border with France, to more than 20 °C (68 °F). on small regions of Mediterranean coast on Almeria, Granada and Malaga provinces, reaching as high as 20.6 °C (69.1 °F) in Rincón de la Victoria.
20 BC El Hierro: 1501: 4920 ... 11 Oct/5 Mar: 2021: V. Tajogaite: La Palma: 19 Sep/13 Dec: 85 Notes. 1 Only eruptions with established and documented references that ...
Palma has a hot semi-arid climate bordering on a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: BSh bordering on Csa; Trewartha: BSal bordering on Csal) with an average annual temperature of 18.5 °C (65 °F). During the coldest month, January, the average high temperature is 15.7 °C (60 °F), while the average low is 8.5 °C (47 °F).
Magaluf (/ m æ ɡ ə ˈ l uː f /, Catalan: [məɣəˈluf], Spanish:) is a town on the western coast of the island of Majorca. Known as a major tourist destination and holiday resort town , Magaluf is in the municipality of Calvià , which is likewise a popular package tour destination.
The municipalities are grouped into 9 comarques ("comarcas" in Castillian Spanish) - six on the island of Mallorca (Palma de Mallorca, Serra de Tramuntana, Raiguer, Pla de Mallorca, Migjorn and Llevant), while the other islands each form one comarque. In the table below, Serra de Tramuntana and Pla de Mallorca are abbreviated to "Serra" and ...
A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Caribbean Saturday evening, about 130 miles southwest of the Cayman Islands, which triggered a tsunami advisory that was later canceled.
Detail of the Catalan Atlas, the first compass rose depicted on a map. Notice the Pole Star set on N. "Majorcan cartographic school" is the term coined by historians to refer to the collection of predominantly Jewish cartographers, cosmographers and navigational instrument-makers and some Christian associates that flourished in Majorca in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries until the expulsion ...