Puntallana

Puntallana municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Canary Islands
Province :	Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Coordinates	28 ° 44 ′  N , 17 ° 45 ′  W Coordinates: 28 ° 44 ′  N , 17 ° 45 ′  W
Height :	420  msnm
Area :	35.10 km²
Residents :	2,506 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	71.4 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	38715
Municipality number  ( INE ):	38030
administration
Mayor :	José Adrián Hernández Montoya ( PSOE )
Website :	puntallana.es
Location of the municipality

Puntallana is one of the 14 communities on the Canary Island of La Palma . The place of the same name is the administrative seat of the municipality. To the south, the municipality borders on that of the island's capital Santa Cruz de La Palma .

Places of the community

The population figures in brackets are from 2013.

• Puntallana (391)
• Bajamar-El Pueblo (32)
• Bajamar-La Galga (2)
• Ciudad Vieja (27)
• Costa Santa Lucia (21)
• El Granel (570)
• La Galga (506)
• Llano Tenagua (1)
• Martin Luis (7)
• Tenagua (547)
• Santa Lucia (242)

Population development

year population change 1900 2.152 1910 2,225 + 73 1920 2,230 + 5 1930 2,318 + 88 1940 2,494 + 176 1950 2,632 + 138 1960 2,321 - 311

year population change 1970 2,078 - 243 1981 2,266 + 188 1990 2,305 + 39 2001 2,258 - 47 2005 2,424 + 166 2013 2,346 - 78

General

This area, which was called Tenagua in the time of the Old Canarians , was called the seventh kingdom of the island. The soil is fertile, as here in the east of the island the clouds often rain down through the northeast trade wind. Numerous sources emerged from them. There are laurel forests in the area , the remnants of the Tertiary . The most common agricultural product was grain. The community's economic development often depended on periods of poor harvests and famine, which led to people emigrating to Cuba and Venezuela . Nowadays the products of fruit, vegetables, wine and especially the banana meet the demands of the new markets. A smaller branch of the economy is tourism .

Interesting places

East coast, Playa de Nogales

Source: Cabildo Insular de La Palma

• Las Vueltas de San Juanito viewpoint at the Barranco Seco Gorge
• The Playa de Nogales on the cliffs of Puntallana is one of the most beautiful beaches on the island. There used to be sea ​​turtles here .
• The church of San Juan Bautista ( John the Baptist ) already existed after the conquest, but was rebuilt in the 18th century. Inside it houses the patron saint, a Flemish carving from the 16th century.
• The pilgrimage chapel and viewpoints of San Bartolomé at the foot of the mountain of La Galga . It dates from the 16th century. Its white walls house the Virgin of Nuestra Señora de La Piedad ( Our Lady of Piety ). Two lookout points nearby offer views of the entire community.
• The pilgrimage chapel of Santa Lucia , which houses the statue of the Virgin of Santa Lucia , which comes from Antwerp (16th century).
• The Weber Distelfeld Martin Luis; between Tenagua and San Juan de Puntallana is the scientifically interesting place of the Barranco del Agua ( gorge of the water ) on a distance of three kilometers . This is one of the places where the endemic Canarian plants that love the drought are particularly abundant. These include the weaver thistle, milkweed plants and gorse .
• At 2,321 meters, Piedra Llana is the highest point in the municipality. It belongs to the Natural Park of Las Nieves and is located on the ridge of the Caldera de Taburiente . Here traces of the indigenous people ( Benahoaritas ) can be found, there are remains of huts, stone piles, rock carvings, ceramic and stone fragments. On the foothills of the mountain stands the work that the artist and environmentalist from Lanzarote , César Manrique , dedicated in the study of the cosmos to the unity of peoples.

Web links

Commons : Puntallana  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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).
2. ↑ INEbase (database of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística)
3. ^ Mauro S. Hernández Pérez: Contribución a la Carta Arqueológica de la isla de la Palma (Canarias) . In: Anuario de Estudios Atlánticos . No. 18 , 1972, ISSN  0570-4065 , p. 550 (Spanish, unirioja.es [accessed January 16, 2018]).
4. ↑ Puntallana (La Palma). In: senderosdelapalma.com. Archived from the original on February 3, 2012 ; accessed on August 21, 2018 .