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Nature Attractions In Puerto de la Cruz

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Puerto de la Cruz is a city and municipality in the northern part of the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. It was formerly known by its English translation, Port of the Cross, although now it is known in all languages by its Spanish name. It is located on the north coast, 4 km northwest of La Orotava, and 30 km west of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The TF-5 motorway passes through the municipality. In Spanish the inhabitants are known as Portuenses. With an area of 8.73 km2 , the municipality is the smallest in Tenerife. The population is 28,929 . The elevation of the town centre is 9 m AMSL. The highest point is Las Arenas, a volcanic cone with an ...
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Nature Attractions In Puerto de la Cruz

  • 1. Loro Parque Puerto De La Cruz
    Loro Parque or 'Loro Park' is a 13.5-hectare zoo on the outskirts of Crossport or Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife, Spain where it houses an extensive and diverse reserve of animal and plant species. The park was conceived as a paradise for parrots and has developed over the years into one of the biggest attractions of the Canary Islands, with over 40 million visitors. The park keeps orcas, which has attracted criticism from some organisations.
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  • 3. Playa Jardin Puerto De La Cruz
    The city of Málaga is governed and administered by the Ayuntamiento de Málaga . It is divided in 10 municipal districts, coordinated by Juntas de Distrito, which are subdivided in wards and industrial parks:
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  • 4. Botanical Gardens (Jardin Botanico) Puerto De La Cruz
    A botanical garden is a place where plants, especially ferns, conifers and flowering plants, are grown and displayed for the purposes of research, conservation, and education. This distinguishes them from parks and pleasure gardens where plants, usually with showy flowers, are grown for public amenity only. Botanical gardens that specialize in trees are sometimes referred to as arboretums. They are occasionally associated with zoos. The earliest botanical gardens were founded in the late Renaissance at the University of Pisa and the University of Padua in Italy, for the study and teaching of medical botany. Many Universities today have botanical gardens for student teaching and academic research, e.g. the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, USA, the Bonn University Botanic Garden, Bonn, ...
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  • 5. Orotava Valley Puerto De La Cruz
    Valle de la Orotava is a Spanish Denominación de Origen for wines located on the north-western coastline of Tenerife, , and acquired its DO in 1995.
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  • 9. Playa San Telmo Puerto De La Cruz
    The city of Málaga is governed and administered by the Ayuntamiento de Málaga . It is divided in 10 municipal districts, coordinated by Juntas de Distrito, which are subdivided in wards and industrial parks:
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  • 12. Cueva del Viento Icod De Los Vinos
    Cueva del Viento underground complex is the largest lava tube in Europe, and the fifth largest in the world, behind a series of lava tubes in Hawaii. It is also considered the most complex volcanic tube in the world, due to its morphology of several levels and passages.It was created by lava flows from Pico Viejo, next to Mount Teide. The cave is located in the town of Icod de los Vinos in the north of the island of Tenerife, Spain. It extends more than 17 kilometres and contains three different levels of passageways, each full of geomorphological phenomena such as lava pits and terraces. The cave is rich in fossils of the Canarian megafauna. Bones of Gallotia goliath and Canariomys bravoi, an extinct giant lizard and rat, respectively, have been discovered here. Archaeological remains bel...
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