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Puerto Rico, February 2018. Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria is a holiday resort situated on the south-west coast of the Spanish island of Gran Canaria.Temperatures in the winter remain around 20-25 °C while there is an average of less than three days per month of precipitation.
The moderating effects of the sea are less prominent further inland, where temperatures are more extreme than those on the coast. Distance from the Atlantic Ocean also has an effect on precipitation levels, so there is less rainfall in the east than in the west. Autumn (October to December) is the wettest season, while July is the driest month.
Flag of Gran Canaria. Gran Canaria (UK: / ˌ ɡ r æ n k ə ˈ n ɛər i ə,-ˈ n ɑːr-/, US: / ˌ ɡ r ɑː n k ə ˈ n ɑːr i ə,-ˈ n ɛər-/; [2] [3] Spanish: [ɡɾaŋ kaˈnaɾja] ⓘ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, [4] an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa and is part of Spain.
UK’s Met Office points out sharply contrasting weather in different parts of continent Spain records 30C temperatures in November as southern Europe sees ‘exceptionally hot’ weather Skip to ...
The Dutch concentrated on Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, attempting to burn it down. The Dutch pillaged Maspalomas, on the southern coast of Gran Canaria, San Sebastián on La Gomera, and Santa Cruz on La Palma, but eventually gave up the siege of Las Palmas and withdrew. Christian prisoners are sold as slaves in a square in Algiers.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria became the capital of the latter, and integrated the islands of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. Las Palmas is a sister city of San Antonio, Texas , in the United States, which was founded in 1718 by about 25 Canary Islanders.
Maspalomas serves as the base for Gran Canaria's only English language newspaper, [4] which serves a print readership in excess of 20,000 every month and reaches up to another 30,000 readers on-line. In September 2012, the World Tourism Organization organized its World Tourism Day in Maspalomas, as a form of commemoration of its 50 years of ...
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