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La Palma (Spanish: [la ˈpalma] ⓘ, locally [lɐ ˈpɑ(l)mɐ]), also known as La isla bonita (English: The Beautiful Island) and historically San Miguel de La Palma, is the most northwesterly island of the Canary Islands, Spain, which is a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean. La Palma has an ...
La Palma is a Norwegian disaster drama miniseries inspired by the Cumbre Vieja tsunami hazard hypothesis and partially based on the 2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The series, primarily filmed on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, [ 4 ] also includes scenes shot in Tenerife . [ 5 ]
The official report on the incident, by the Spanish Air Force, was declassified in June 1994. Much of its content had already been released to the public in 1977, after journalist and paranormal investigator J.J. Benitez obtained the same report and used it as the basis of a book on UFO cases. 1976 – 19 November [1]
Santa Cruz de la Palma is the second-largest city (after Los Llanos de Aridane) and is the capital of the island. It is along an old lava flow coming from the Caldereta (small caldera), a volcano just south of the city. Santa Cruz de La Palma has the privilege of having the first democratically elected town hall in Spain.
On the island of La Palma, Cueva del Agua is a village 1.5 km east of the LP-114 road that links Santo Domingo (3 km north) to Las Tricias (9 km south, near Fagundo and the Pino de la Virgen). It stands between the districts of El Castillo village to the south and the town of Santo Domingo to the north.
La Guancha; Guía de Isora; Güímar; Icod de los Vinos; La Matanza de Acentejo; La Orotava; Puerto de la Cruz; Los Realejos; El Rosario; San Cristóbal de La Laguna; San Juan de la Rambla; San Miguel de Abona; Santa Cruz de Tenerife; Santa Úrsula; Santiago del Teide; El Sauzal; Los Silos; Tacoronte; El Tanque; Tegueste; La Victoria de ...
Puntagorda is a village and a municipality in the northwestern part of the island of La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. It is situated 23 km northwest of Santa Cruz de la Palma. The municipality consists of a number of small villages, total population 2,057 (2013 [3]). The area is 31.10 km 2. [1] The elevation of the village is around 700 m.
The Romans named each of the islands: Ninguaria or Nivaria (Tenerife), Canaria (Gran Canaria), Pluvialia or Invale (Lanzarote), Ombrion (La Palma), Planasia (Fuerteventura), Iunonia or Junonia (El Hierro) and Capraria (La Gomera). From the 14th century onward, sailors from Mallorca, Portugal and Genoa made numerous visits.