WhaT is Gran Canaria?

Gran Canaria is a Spanish island in the Canary archipelago, located in the Atlantic Ocean. Together with the islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura is the province of Las Palmas, which also consisted of the islets of La Graciosa, Alegranza, Montaña Clara, Roque del Este, Roque del Oeste and Lobos Island.

Gran Canaria has a wide variety of climates, due to both the altitudinal gradient and the effect of trade winds, which lead to marked differences between windward and leeward landscape. The island capital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is considered the city with the best climate in the world according to a study by Syracuse University (New York). For its part, Mogan in the south of the island, is the European Union more clear days.

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The Carnival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is one of the largest in the world, are very popular and can be considered one of the most important holidays of the archipelago.
Most of the monuments that can be seen in Gran Canaria after the time of conquest, but have been able to preserve some sites and places belonging to the natives of the (Cueva pintada de Gáldar, el Cenobio de Valerón en Santa María de Guía).

The main tourist resorts on the island are San Agustin, with a natural sandy beach 640 m long, Playa del Inglés, the biggest resort on the island with a natural beach of 2,700 m, Maspalomas three ecosystems, the dunes, palm trees and a large coastal lagoon known as the Pond, are the Special Natural Reserve, whose preservation is endangered by urban development itself that prevents regeneration, Meloneras, between the Maspalomas lighthouse and beach Meloneras is currently the fastest growing tourist area, Puerto Rico, artificial beach created in the 1960 and Puerto de Mogan.

Gran Canaria, is sun, people, it's beach culture is is break, it's fun, it's fauna, flora, is ... is what you want it to be.
Esto es Gran Canaria, This is Gran Canaria, Dies ist Gran Canaria.