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Module:Location map/data/Spain La Palma is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of La Palma. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
La Palma was incorporated on October 26, 1955. It was originally incorporated as Dairyland, and was one of three dairy cities in the region (the other two being Dairy Valley, now Cerritos, and Dairy City, now Cypress) but when the dairies moved east in 1965, the name of the community was changed to La Palma, after the region's Spanish heritage and its main thoroughfare, La Palma Avenue.
La Palma (Spanish: [la ˈpalma] ⓘ, locally [lɐ ˈpɑ(l)mɐ]), also known as La isla bonita (English: The Beautiful Island) and historically San Miguel de La Palma, is the most northwesterly island of the Canary Islands, Spain, which is a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean. La Palma has an ...
La Palma 46.9 km 2 (18.1 sq mi) 1954 Part of the La Palma Biosphere Reserve since 2002 Garajonay National Park: La Gomera 39.86 km 2 (15.39 sq mi) 1981 World Heritage Site since 1986 Teide National Park: Tenerife 189.9 km 2 (73.3 sq mi) 1954 World Heritage Site since 2007 Timanfaya National Park: Lanzarote 51.07 km 2 (19.72 sq mi) 1974
Andres Hernandez's pristine white salt flats on the Spanish island of La Palma have turned black. A third of his annual production in the past two weeks has been ruined since the Cumbre Vieja ...
"Salt Creek" first appeared on a map in 1867, and "Salton Station" is on a railroad map from 1900, although this place had existed as a rail stop since the late 1870s. [7] Until the advent of the modern sea, the Salton Sink was the site of a major salt-mining operation.
Following the capture, Azevedo and his 39 companions were massacred. In 1971 40 concrete crosses at the place of martyrdom for the Forty Martyrs of Brazil, about 200 off the Fuencaliente lighthouse were placed on the seabed by the government of the island La Palma. This place is situated in a depth of about 20 meters and is today a popular ...
Punta Cumplida is the oldest of the four main lighthouses on La Palma, each one being located near to a different cardinal point of the island. Punta Cumplida marks the north-eastern tip; Fuencaliente the southern point, and the two modern lighthouses at Punta Lava and Arenas Blancas , the eastern and western points respectively.