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Arrecife (/ ˌ æ r ə ˈ s iː f eɪ /; Spanish: ⓘ; locally) is the capital city and a municipality of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.It was made the island's capital in 1852. The city owes its name to the rock reef ("arrecife" being Spanish for "reef") which covers its local beach.
The Arrecifes de Cozumel National Park is off the coast of the island of Cozumel in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico.The Cozumel reef system is part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the second largest coral reef system in the world.
Scorpion Reef (Spanish: Arrecife Alacranes) is an atoll containing a small group of islets in the Gulf of Mexico, about 125 kilometres (78 mi; 67 NM) off the northern coast of the state of Yucatán, Mexico. [2] Designated a national park, the reef is part of the Campeche Bank archipelago and is the largest reef in the southern Gulf of Mexico.
The Port of Arrecife is the main port facility for Lanzarote and the second busiest in the Canary Islands in terms of passengers. [4] It handles passenger ferries , cruise ships and ro-ro cargo, but also bulk , breakbulk , containers , liquid bulk , and has a large fishing port.
San Ginés is a church in Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain. Originally the location of a hermitage built in 1574 that contained images of Saint Peter and Saint Ginés, it was flooded and completely rebuilt in 1667. It was expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [1]
In the 1970s the fortress was renovated and the interior redesigned by the artist César Manrique, who was born nearby, to house a museum of modern art.The museum opened to the public in 1976 as the International Museum of Contemporary Art (Spanish: Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, abbreviated as MIAC).
The airport is located in San Bartolomé, Las Palmas, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) southwest of the island's capital, Arrecife. [1] It handles flights to many European airports, with hundreds of thousands of tourists each year, as well as domestic flights to other Spanish airports. It handled 7,350,451 passengers in 2022.
The Arrecife Gran Hotel & Spa [1] better known as Gran Hotel, is a skyscraper in the city of Arrecife (Canary Islands, Spain). It is the tallest building on the island of Lanzarote at 54 meters tall and 15 floors (above ground). [2] Completed in 1974, it is located at the end of Maritime Avenue of Arrecife by the sea and Playa de El Reducto. [3]