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In May 1661, the Captain General of the Canary Islands, Jerónimo de Benavente y Quiñones, moved the headquarters of the captaincy to the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna on the island of Tenerife. [111] This was due to the fact that this island since the conquest was the most populated, productive and with the highest economic expectations ...
Televisión Canaria is a Spanish regional free-to-air television network in the Canary Islands belonging to the regional public broadcaster Radio Televisión Canaria (RTVC). It has two production centers in Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and has offices in the rest of the Canary Islands, as well as in Madrid . [1]
Natural History of the Canary Islands (French: Histoire Naturelle des Îles Canaries) [1] is an illustrated reference work of the natural history of the Canary Islands. It was written by the English botanist Philip Barker-Webb and the French naturalist and ethnologist Sabin Berthelot, in cooperation with several other scientists. It was ...
Probably in December 1405, Bethencourt sailed back to France, and entrusted his nephew Mateo or Maciot de Béthencourt with the government. He never returned to the Canary Islands, because of the flare-up of the Hundred Years' War in Normandy and financial problems [7]. Other sources put the final return of de Béthencourt to Europe in 1412 [8].
La Palma, like the other islands of the Canary Islands archipelago, is a volcanic ocean island. The volcano rises almost 7 km (4 mi) above the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. [6] There is road access from sea level to the summit at 2,426 m (7,959 ft), [7] which is marked by an outcrop of rocks called Roque de Los Muchachos ("Rock of the Young Men").
The city was founded in 1478, and considered the de facto (without legal and real recognition) [14] capital of the Canary Islands until the seventeenth century. [14] It is the home of the Canarian Ministry of Presidency (shared in a four-year term with Santa Cruz de Tenerife), as well as half of the ministries and boards of the Canarian ...
Lanzarote (UK: / ˌ l æ n z ə ˈ r ɒ t i /, [3] [4] Spanish: [lanθaˈɾote] ⓘ, locally [lansaˈɾote]) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, 125 kilometres (80 miles) off the north coast of Africa and 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) from the Iberian Peninsula.
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