Fuencaliente de La Palma
| Fuencaliente de La Palma municipality | |||
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| coat of arms | Map of the Canary Islands | ||
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| Autonomous Community : | Canary Islands | ||
| Province : | Santa Cruz de Tenerife | ||
| Coordinates | 28 ° 29 ′ N , 17 ° 50 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 722 msnm | ||
| Area : | 56.42 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,722 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 30.52 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Postal code : | 38740 | ||
| Municipality number ( INE ): | 38014 | ||
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| Mayor : | Gregorio Clemente Alonso Méndez ( CC ) | ||
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Fuencaliente de La Palma is the southernmost of the 14 municipalities on the Canary Island of La Palma . She has been self-employed since 1873.
The name is derived from Fuente Caliente ( hot spring ) and refers to the medicinal spring " Fuente Santa ", which was used in the 16th and 17th centuries. After it was buried under lava masses during the eruption of the San Antonio volcano in 1677 and remained undiscovered for 300 years, the place was renamed Los Canarios . Both names are used today. In 2005 the source was rediscovered.
Places of the community
The population figures in brackets are from 2013.
- Los Canarios (709)
- Las Indias (620)
- Los Quemados (243)
- Las Caletas (161)
- La Fajana (35)
- El Charco (30)
Population development
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Administrative headquarters
The place Los Canarios (sometimes also called Fuencaliente ) became the administrative seat of the municipality in 1837 and is located at an altitude of over 700 m . The church of San Antonio de Abad dates from the 16th century.
The region
About 70 percent of the community area is under nature or landscape protection . These include the southern foothills of the Cumbre Vieja and the Tamanca Protected Landscape . There are extensive pine forests around the Fuente de Los Roques theme park .
Punta de Fuencaliente
At the southern cape of La Palma, the Punta de Fuencaliente , there are two lighthouses, Faro de Fuencaliente . The old lighthouse is used as an information center for the marine reserve on the island of La Palma. On the west side of the lighthouses there is a small fishing village and on the east side are the salt pans of Fuencaliente .
Punta Malpique
Near the Punta de Fuencaliente there is another, smaller cape to the northwest, the Punta Malpique . The place is a well-known diving area where the rare black corals can still be found. In 1971, 40 stone crosses were sunk in the sea south of the Cape to create a memorial for the missionary Inácio de Azevedo, who was murdered by Huguenot privateers in 1570 and later beatified, and his 39 companions. The group that belonged to the Jesuit order is also known as the " Forty Martyrs of Brazil ".
San Antonio volcano
The age of the 657 meter high San Antonio is estimated to be around 3000 years. During its last eruption in 1677, the hot spring (Fuente Santa) was buried and remained undiscovered for 300 years until it was re-opened in 2005. A small visitor center with exhibition rooms provides information on geological details.
Teneguia volcano
The 438-meter-high and youngest volcano in the Canary Islands was not formed until 1971 during a three-week eruption. Several chimneys below the San Antonio merged into one. Since the emerging lava flowed to the adjacent south coast and cooled down there in the sea, the island of La Palma became a bit bigger again.
economy
In addition to income from soft tourism, viticulture is an important source of income. Due to the fertile volcanic ash, a good island wine thrives in the municipality of Fuencaliente. The sweet, multiple award-winning Malvasia is particularly worth mentioning . The English brought this favorite wine to the island over 300 years ago. Today the winery, founded in 1945, produces almost two million liters of wine per year as a cooperative . It has 200 members who together cultivate around 800 hectares of vineyards.
Another branch of the economy is the cultivation of bananas in the plantations below the volcanoes.
In the Saline Fuencaliente, which is in operation since 1967, will become even more salt today. It is the last saltworks in the Canarian province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife that is still in operation. However, the owner Fernando Hernández Villalba is fighting for economic survival. UNESCO subsidized urgent renovation work as early as 1995 , and in 2007 the island government promised support for the expansion of the saltworks so that it could also be exported abroad. There is already demand there. There is also a visitor center and a salt and sea restaurant.
Web links
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- ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (Spanish Statistical Institute). Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
- ↑ El Centro de Interpretación de La Reserva Marina en el antiguo Faro de Fuencaliente , accessed on February 28, 2019.
