Faro de Punta del Hidalgo
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| Place: | Punta del Hidalgo , Tenerife , Canary Islands | |
| Location: | on a coastal plain | |
| Geographical location: | 28 ° 34 '34.9 " N , 16 ° 19' 43.6" W | |
| Fire carrier height : | 50 m | |
| Fire height : | 52 m | |
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| Identifier : | Fl. (3) W.16s | |
| Scope knows: | 16 nm (29.6 km ) | |
| Operating mode: | electric, 360 W | |
| Function: | Sea fire | |
| Construction time: | 1992 | |
| Operating time: | since 1994 | |
| International ordinal number: | D-2818 | |
The Faro de Punta del Hidalgo is a lighthouse in the northeast of the Canary Island of Tenerife . It is located in the municipality of San Cristóbal de La Laguna . The lighthouse is registered under the international number D-2818 and the national number 12945 and has a range of 16 nautical miles .
History and architecture
According to the plan drawn up in the second half of the 1980s to expand the lighting on the Canarian coast, the 18 existing lighthouses were supplemented by nine more in the 1990s. On the north coast of Tenerife, three new towers were built at the Punta del Hidalgo, in Puerto de la Cruz and at Buenavista del Norte on behalf of the Santa Cruz port authority . The Faro de Punta del Hidalgo was built within a few months in 1992 according to plans by the architect Hidalgo Ramiro Rodriguez-Borlado and put into operation in 1994.
The modern building stands on the edge of a flat coastal plain covered by banana plantations. The tower, made up of a large number of cuboids of different heights, is 50 meters high. Its shape is reminiscent of a group of basalt columns like those found on the volcanic island, for example in the Orotava Valley . Its pure white color contrasts with the dark mountains of the Anaga Mountains in the hinterland. Inside the building, which is not accessible to the public, 246 steps lead to the fourteenth and thus the highest floor. There was no need for a lighthouse keeper to live because the lighthouse is operated automatically. Two technicians visit him only once a week for maintenance purposes.
In 1994/95 the lighthouse was used by international teams of meteorologists to measure the aerosol distribution in the earth's atmosphere .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c List of Lights, Radio Aids and Fog Signals. Pub. 113: The West Coasts of Europe and Africa, The Mediterranian Sea, Black Sea and Azovskoye More (Sea of Azov) (PDF; 3.3 MB), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Springfield, Virginia, 2016, p. 415 (English ).
- ↑ Punta del Hidalgo lighthouse (NNW of Tenerife island) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) on Phares du Monde, accessed on April 13, 2017 (English)
- ↑ 2818 Faro de Punta del Hidalgo. In: Guias masmar. Retrieved March 7, 2016 (Spanish).
- ↑ Jesús Ruiz Mesa: Los faros que alumbran el Atlántico . In: TeldeActualidad of February 28, 2015, accessed March 8, 2016 (Spanish).
- ↑ Laura Docampo: Tres destellos cada 16 segundos . In: La Opinión de Tenerife of March 4, 2012, accessed March 8, 2016 (Spanish).
- ↑ Frank Raes, Rita Van Dingenen, Emilio Cuevas, Peter FJ Van Velthoven, Joseph M. Prospero: Observations of aerosols in the free troposphere and marine boundary layer of the subtropical Northeast Atlantic: Discussion of processes deterministic mining Their size distribution. In: Journal of Geophysical Research . Vol. 102, No. D17, 1997, pp. 21315-21328 (English). doi : 10.1029 / 97JD01122
- ^ FM McGovern, MJ Nunes, F. Raes, H. Gonzales-Jorge: Marine and anthropogenic aerosols at Punta Del Hidalgo, Tenerife, and the aerosol nitrate number paradox . In: Journal of Geophysical Research . 107, No. D24, 2002, pp. 4766-4775 (English). doi : 10.1029 / 2001JD000827