La+Palma+the+beautiful+island

   =Hello, we are Isabel, Aimara and Christian. = (Hallo, wir sind Isabel, Aimara und Christian)

=La Palma has an area of 706 km2. =

=The total population is about 86,000 =

La Palma (Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈpalma]) is the most north-westerly of the Canary Islands. La Palma has an area of 706 km2 making it the fifth largest of the seven main Canary Islands. The total population is about 86,000, of which 18,000 (2003 data) live in the capital, Santa Cruz de la Palma and about 20,000 (2004 data) in Los Llanos de Aridane.

Santa Cruz de La Palma (the island's main port) retains many elegant 17th and 18th century houses, and produces high quality hand made cigars made from locally grown tobacco. In 1815, the German geologist Leopold von Buch visited the Canary Islands.  It was as a result of his visit to La Palma and Tenerife where he visited the Las Cañadas and Taburiente calderas, that the Spanish word for cauldron - "Caldera" - was introduced into the English language geological vocabulary. La Palma has "Sister City" status with El Dorado Hills, CA.  Garafía is a municipality in the Canary Islands in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. It is situated on the northern coast of the island of La Palma.  The capital of the municipality is Santo Domingo. Other villages are Las Tricias, El Castillo, Juan Adalid, Don Pedro, El Tablado, La Mata, San Antonio del Monte and Franceses.

The elevation ranges from 0 at the coast to 2545m at the Roque de los Muchachos.

Until the 1960s the villages were largely isolated from the rest of the island and only accessible by donkey paths. Since then roads have been built and the area is easily accessible on good, but twisty, asphalted roads. As with many rural areas the population is in decline as small scale agriculture and traditional rural life does not provide the income to encourage young people to stay. The majority of the population are rural and a few are urban

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<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In this video you can have a glimpse of La Palma while listening to the officious anthem of the Canary Islands.

<span style="background-color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">La Palma, whose historic name is San Miguel de La Palma is an island belonging to the Atlantic Ocean archipelago of the Canary Islands (Spain). media type="youtube" key="7vclqfXaJZw" height="315" width="420"

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<span style="background-color: #00ffea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The local economy is primarily based on agriculture and tourism. Platanos (or Bananas) are grown throughout the island with many banana farms on the western side of the island in the valley of Los Llanos de Aridane.

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Due to the location of the island and the height of its mountains, some 2,400 m (7,874 ft) above sea level, a number of international observatories have been built on the Roque de los Muchachos. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Volcano Like all of the Canary Islands, La Palma originally formed as a seamount through submarine volcanic activity. La Palma is currently the most volcanically active of the Canary Islands and was formed three to four million years ago.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Flora and Fauna As with all the Canary Islands, La Palma has several endemic species.


 * [|La Palma Giant Lizard], believed extinct until rediscovered in 2007
 * Western Canaries Lizard // [|Gallotia galloti] //, subspecies //palmae//
 * [|Graja] //(Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax barbarus)//, subspecies of the [|Red-billed Chough]
 * [|Canary Islands Chiffchaff] (//Phylloscopus canariensis//)
 * [|La Palma Chaffinch] (//Fringilla coelebs palmae//)
 * [|Western Canary Islands Goldcrest] (//Regulus regulus ellenthalerae//)
 * [|Canary Islands Quail] (//Coturnix gomerae//)

Now let's have a look at a promotion of the local bananas.

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<span style="background-color: #00faff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Due to its formation and location, La Palma presents a Variety oflandscapes, because of the diversity of ecosystems that presents,from arid to very wet coastal forest formation of the laurel