DESTINATION TENERIFE
Tenerife (previously known and spelled as Teneriffe in English, before mass tourism adopted the Spanish spelling), a Spanish island, is the largest of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.
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Playa de las Americas,
Rogue Cinchado,
Santa Cruz de Tenerife,
Siam Park,
Teide National Park,
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Adeje is one of the most popular tourist cities in the Canary Islands. Many communities of Adeje are major tourist hot spots. These resorts are connected up by one big pathway. The main communities there are: Costa Adeje, Playa de las Américas and Los Cristianos. Adeje is also home to Siam Park, the largest water park in Europe ...
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EL MEDANO
El Médano (the sand dune) is a town in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona, on the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. A place of strong winds, it has been the site for various windsurfing competitions and championships, though in recent years, an increase in the number of high-rise hotels and apartment buildings has reduced these winds' power ...
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LORO PARQUE
Loro Parque (parrot park) is a zoo located on the outskirts of Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife. Loro Parque constitutes a Foundation which is particularly active in conservating the most endangered parrot species in the world. Also Europe's largest dolphin show pool, the world's largest indoor penguin exhibition, the longest shark tunnel in Europe ...
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LOS CRISTIANOS
Los Cristianos is a town situated on the south coast of the Canary Island of Tenerife. Located in the municipality of Arona between the cone of the mountain Chayofita and the greater mountain Guaza. The town centre is around the Los Cristianos bay, but is rapidly expanding inland with modern development ...
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LOS GIGANTES
The cliffs at Los Gigantes are one of the island's major tourist attractions. There are three viewpoints in the village, the main one on main road to towards Tamaimo, another above the sports club and a third on a coastal path around the Hotel Barcelo. The village has many small shops and restaurants servicing the tourists that visit the area ...
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LOS REALEJOS
Los Realejos is a medium-sized town on the north side of the island and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The principality of Los Realejos also includes a few beaches of note, Playa del Socorro being the most popular with both local and tourists. Also worthy of mention are Playa de Castro and Playa de Fajana ...
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LOS SILOS
Los Silos is a municipality and town on the north coast of Tenerife, It is located on the TF42 Road about 65 km West of the capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife (City), and 55 km from Tenerife North Airport. Its name first appears in 1509, when the agricultural activity of the region made necessary the construction of silos to store cereals ...
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MOUNT TEIDE
Mount Teide or, in Spanish, Pico del Teide, is the highest elevation in Spain and the islands of the Atlantic (it is the third largest volcano in the world from its base, after Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea located in Hawaii). It is an active volcano which last erupted in 1909 from the El Chinyero vent on the Santiago rift and is located on Tenerife ...
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OROTAVA VALLEY
The greenish and fruitful Orotava Valley is a beautiful valley filled with gullies and cliffs located in the northern part of the Canary island of Tenerife, in Spain. The valley is 10 by 11 km. The valley stretches from the sea up to the mountains at 2,000 m which begins near Las Cañadas up to Pico del Teide at 3,718 m is Spain's tallest mountain ...
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PICO VIEIJO
Pico Viejo is a volcano located on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). It is the second highest peak of Tenerife and the Canary Islands (after the Teide) with a height of 3.135 m above sea level. This volcano is part of the volcanic complex Teide-Pico Viejo formation which began about 200,000 years ago in the center of the island ...
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PLAYA DE LAS AMERICAS
Playa de las Américas is a purpose-built holiday resort in the northern part of the Municipality of Arona, close to the adjoining Municipality of Adeje in the south of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. It was built in the 1960s beside the town of Los Cristianos and stretching northward to the Costa Adeje ...
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ROGUE CINCHADO
Roque Cinchado is a unique rock formation and is emblematic of the island of Tenerife. It lies within the Teide National Park (a World Heritage Site) in the municipality of La Orotava, near the volcano of the same name, in the heart of the island. The Roque Cinchado is one of the largest in the world by altitude, for the entire park totals more than 2000 metres ...
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SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE
Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital of the island of Tenerife and capital of the Canary Islands jointly with Las Palmas. Located in northeast quadrant of Tenerife, about 210 kilometres off the northwestern coast of Africa within the Atlantic Ocean. Between the 1833 territorial division of Spain and 1927 Santa Cruz was the sole capital of the Canary Islands ...
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SIAM PARK
Siam Park is a Loro Parque-owned water park in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. It is located on the TF1 highway in Costa Adeje. At 18.5 hectares. Siam Park features Siamese theming and most of the ProSlide water rides. One of the most spectacular water attractions in Europe, the theme park is set in the ancient kingdom of Siam ...
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TEIDE NATIONAL PARK
Teide National Park is a national park located in Tenerife. It is centered around Mount Teide which has the highest elevation of Spain and the islands of the Atlantic (it is the third largest volcano in the world from its base). It was declared a National Park in 1954, making it one of the oldest national parks in Spain. It is also the largest National Park in Spain ...
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