Granadilla de Abona

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Granadilla de Abona
Municipality
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Municipal location in Tenerife
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Granadilla de Abona
Location in Tenerife
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Granadilla de Abona
Granadilla de Abona (Canary Islands)
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Granadilla de Abona
Granadilla de Abona (Spain, Canary Islands)
Coordinates: 28°7′0″N16°34′0″W / 28.11667°N 16.56667°W / 28.11667; -16.56667
CountryFlag of Spain.svg  Spain
Autonomous Community Flag of the Canary Islands.svg  Canary Islands
Province Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Island Tenerife
Government
  MayorJosé Domingo Regalado (CC)
Area
  Total162.4 km2 (62.7 sq mi)
Elevation650 m (2,130 ft)
Population
 (2018) [1]
  Total48,374
  Density300/km2 (770/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+0 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+1 (CEST (GMT +1))
Postal code
38600
Area code +34 (Spain) + 922 (Tenerife)
Climate Csb
Website Town Hall

Granadilla de Abona is a municipality of Tenerife, located in the south of the island, occupying an area of 155 square kilometers. Its population in 2013 was 43,608. In recent years, the population has greatly increased due to an influx of immigrants, from Western Sahara, Colombia, Cuba, and other African and Latin American countries.[ citation needed ]

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The municipality extends from the altitudinous center of the island -Mount Guajara (2,718 m, the third-highest mountain on the island, after Teide and Pico Viejo) is situated in this municipality- to the Atlantic Ocean.

Reina Sofía Airport is located in this municipality, as well as the beachside town of El Médano ("The Sand Dune"), where many important windsurfing competitions are held. La Montaña Roja ("The Red Mountain"), a volcanic cone located in El Médano, is a protected natural preserve, along with five other "espacios naturales," which comprise 25% of the municipality's total area. Plans to build an industrial and commercial port in this municipality along a 5-kilometer (3.1 mi) sector along the coast, from Barranco del Río to Montaña Pelada, have been discussed but not implemented, due to concerns about the environmental damage such a development would cause (All objections have been cleared and port goes ahead). [2] There is a wind farm in this municipality as well. [3]

Communities

The municipality's main town is Granadilla de Abona; other towns include San Isidro, El Cabezo, Castro, Los Abrigos, Charco del Pino, El Médano, Montaña de Yaco, El Salto, and Los Llanos.

Historical population

YearPopulation
199116,884
199618,508
200121,135
200227,224
200328,927
200430,769
201343,608

History

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Granadilla de Abona, historic center of the town
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Cave of Santo Hermano Pedro, Catholic pilgrimage sanctuary

Abona was the name of a Guanche menceyato, or kingdom, that existed in this region of the island at the time of Spanish conquest in the late fifteenth century. Founded around 1445, Abona was ruled by Adjona or Atguaxoña, son of Axerax and whose son after the conquest was baptised and named Alonso Gonzalez. It extended from the Río de Chasna to Adeje, from the Barranco de Herques, to Güímar. The Spanish toponym of Granadilla does not appear until the end of the sixteenth century, but the settlement of the area by Europeans began at the time of conquest.

The Bay of El Médano was the last stop for provisions for Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano during the circumnavigation of the world. The expedition's cartographer and translator, Antonio Pigafetta, left this description of the place: "On Tuesday, September 20, in the same year [1519] we departed from the place called Sanlúcar [de Barrameda], heading southwest, and before the end of the month, on the 26th, we arrived at an island that is called Tenerife, at 28 degrees longitude, to acquire meat, water, and firewood. We remained there for three days and a half; later we approached another port on the same island, Monte Rosso [Montaña Roja] by name, lingering there for two days…On Monday, October 3, at midnight, we departed southwards..." [4]

Records indicate that a church existed in the municipality in 1575. A Franciscan convent was founded in February 1665. St. Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur (1626–1667), spent some time in a little cave situated near the present-day town of El Médano. The cave is now the site of a small shrine dedicated to the saint.

Granadilla de Abona acquired the status of a municipality in the nineteenth century, and a highway linking it to other parts of the island in the 1930s. Previously, travel to other parts of the island was only possibly by boat, which departed from the seaside towns of El Médano and Los Abrigos.

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La Montaña Roja, Municipality of Granadilla de Abona

See also

Notes

  1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. "Treinta Años del Puerto Industrial y Comercial de Granadilla de Abona - Ecoportal.net". Archived from the original on 2005-04-05. Retrieved 2005-07-11.
  3. "Canarias". Archived from the original on 2007-11-11. Retrieved 2007-10-03.
  4. pigafetta Archived 2006-03-19 at the Wayback Machine

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