Birds of the Canary Islands (Helm Field Guides)

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Trade Winds and the Hadley Cell". earthguide.ucsd.edu. Calspace, University of California, San Diego. 24 June 2013. Archived from the original on 21 May 2008 . Retrieved 30 August 2016.

Instituto Geográfico Nacional". Fomento.es. 10 November 1949. Archived from the original on 1 April 2010 . Retrieved 26 April 2010. Lava shoots up from volcano on La Palma in Spanish Canary Islands". Reuters. 19 September 2021 . Retrieved 19 September 2021. Spanish Galleon Trail, Plate Fleets". flheritage.com. Florida Department of State. Archived from the original on 28 May 2016 . Retrieved 30 August 2016. The Canary Islands have eight airports altogether, two of the main ports of Spain, and an extensive network of autopistas (highways) and other roads. For a road map see multimap. [135] Traffic congestion is sometimes a problem in Tenerife and on Grand Canaria. [136] [137] [138]

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The islands have 14 seats in the Spanish Senate. Of these, 11 seats are directly elected (3 for Gran Canaria, 3 for Tenerife, and 1 each for Lanzarote (including La Graciosa), Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro) while the other 3 are appointed by the regional legislature. [51] Political geography [ edit ] The Spanish of the Canary Islands". www.personal.psu.edu. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012 . Retrieved 31 January 2020. It is well-known that the kestrel is also called the windhover and they can often be seen hovering motionlessly in the sky. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria was the first city that exercised this function. This is because the residence of the Captain General of the Canary Islands was in this city during part of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. [95] 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. [96] This was due to the fact that this island since the conquest was the most populated, productive and with the highest economic expectations. [97] La Laguna would be considered the de facto capital of the archipelago [98] until the official status of the capital of Canary Islands in the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife was confirmed in the 19th century, due in part to the constant controversies and rivalries between the bourgeoisies of San Cristóbal de La Laguna and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for the economic, political and institutional hegemony of the archipelago. [99]

The Canary Islands are located off the coast of NW Africa, and include several islands. Among them, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura are the largest, but there are nine other smaller islands. The appearance of the Virgin of Candelaria (Patron of Canary Islands) was credited with moving the Canary Islands toward Christianity. Two Catholic saints were born in the Canary Islands: Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur [112] and José de Anchieta. [113] Both born on the island of Tenerife, they were respectively missionaries in Guatemala and Brazil. It is endemic to the Canary Islands, Azores and Madeira in the region known as Macaronesia in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. In the Canary Islands, it is common on Tenerife, La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro, but more local on Gran Canaria, and rare on Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, where it has only recently begun breeding. [10] [13] It is common in Madeira including Porto Santo and the Desertas Islands, and has been recorded on the Salvage Islands. In the Azores, it is common on all islands. [10] The population has been estimated at 80,000-90,000 pairs in the Canary Islands, 30,000-60,000 pairs in the Azores and 4,000-5,000 pairs in Madeira. [3] Julio Sánchez Rodríguez. "San Marcial de Rubicón y los obispados de Canarias" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2015 . Retrieved 24 May 2016.Between remote work, pleasant strolls around the Erjos area again, once again a good selection of butterflies and birds. Much sought after, encountered my first Canary Blue of the trip too, not a cooperative individual however. Photographs would have to rely on finding another. Other theories speculate that the name comes from the Nukkari Berber tribe living in the Moroccan Atlas, named in Roman sources as Canarii, though Pliny again mentions the relation of this term with dogs. [23] Farrujia de la Rosa, José (1 January 2015). "Written in stones: The Amazigh colonization of the Canary Islands". Corpus (in French) (14): 115–138. doi: 10.4000/corpus.2641. ISSN 1638-9808. S2CID 135307065. Holidays [ edit ] The Dance of the Dwarves is one of the most important acts of the Lustral Festivities of the Bajada de la Virgen de las Nieves in Santa Cruz de La Palma. Dancers with typical costume in El Tamaduste ( El Hierro) Band of Agaete in the Traída del Agua ( Gran Canaria) Already in 1723, the Captain General of the Canary Islands Lorenzo Fernandez de Villavicencio had moved the headquarters of the General Captaincy of the Canary Islands from San Cristóbal de La Laguna to Santa Cruz de Tenerife. This decision continued without pleasing the society of the island of Gran Canaria. [100] It would be after the creation of the Province of Canary Islands in November 1833 in which Santa Cruz would become the first fully official capital of the Canary Islands ( De jure and not of de facto as happened previously). [13] [16] Santa Cruz de Tenerife would be the capital of the Canary archipelago until during the Government of General Primo de Rivera in 1927 the Province of Canary Islands was split in two provinces: Las Palmas with capital in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and Santa Cruz de Tenerife with capital in the homonymous city.

On Madeira the characteristic vegetation is laurel forest. On the western and central Canaries laurel forest occurs at 400-1,300 m and montane Pinus canariensis forest at 800-1,900 m. The lower-lying and arid eastern Canaries (Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Graciosa) are vegetated with semi-desert scrub.

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