These are placed at & has the expanse of 2 034 km². Such as a rest of the Canary Islands, these are of volcanic origin. A greatest point of Spain, Teide (3 718 m), is on this island.

A island is section of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. It includes 31 municipalities:

The Anaga Mountain Range in the north of Tenerife

Adeje Arafo Arico Arona Buenavista del Norte Candelaria Fasnia Garachico Granadilla de Abona La Guancha

Guía de Isora Güímar Icod de los Vinos La Matanza de Acentejo La Orotava Puerto de la Cruz Los Realejos El Rosario San Cristóbal de La Laguna San Juan de la Rambla San Miguel de Abona

Santa Cruz de Tenerife Santa Úrsula Santiago del Teide El Sauzal Los Silos Tacoronte El Tanque Tegueste La Victoria de Acentejo Vilaflor

A big city, Santa Cruz, is the capital of the isl& and seat of the cabildo insular (isl& government); these are as well a capital of the province of Santa Cruz first state Tenerife and officially co-capital of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands together with Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, although clearly behind this one around terms of population, industry, tourism or gross domestic produce.

A village Güímar is the site of the mysterious Pyramids of Güímar.

A island's people is 778,071.

Transportation

Tenerife has main road encircling a isl& & midway between a mountain, Santa Cruz delaware Tenerife & La Laguna and a single into Mount Teide. There is a itinerant northward of Santa Cruz first state Tenerife however a Anaga drop don't encircle a whole that section of the island. Whilst touristry boomed, a number one superhighways within a island which are then a 2nd westermost in Africa including the mainland. A TF1 was first opened as much as Santa Cruz delaware Tenerife & a TF2 later opened to Los Rodeos Airport and to San Cristóbal diamond state La Laguna. Increasing touristry expanded to the Orotava Valley & to Tenerife Sur & eventually west of Adeje. A island has ii airdrome, a Los Rodeos or Tenerife Norte and a Reina Sofia Airport or Tenerife Sur.

History

Known to the Romans when Nivaria (from either a Latin nix, nivis, "snow"), a information to a snows atop the volcano referred to as El Teide, Tenerife bears the title that is besides a information to this volcano, & was utilized for the island per Guanches of the neighboring island of La Palma, “Tene� signifying “mountain� and “ife� white (a “r� was added per Spanish). To a indigen of Tenerife, the island was referred to as Chenech, Chinech or even Achinech.

Tenerife at a instance of its conquest was comprised of nine distinct menceyatos, when a little kingdoms of the Guanches were known. Though a Spanish forces under a Adelantado ("military governor") Alonso Fernández de Lugo, suffered a devastating kill at a mitts of the Guanches in the First Battle of Acentejo in 1494, the Guanches, eventually overcome by superior technology & diseases to which it were nin resistant, fell back to the Crown of Castile on December 25, 1495.

When on a other islands of the equivalent class action, good deal of the native people of Tenerife wwhen enslaved or even succumbed to diseases at the equivalent period as immigrants from either various associated area of the Spanish Empire (Portugal, Flanders, Italy, Germany) settled on the island. Native pine forests on the island were cleared to produce way for the cultivation of sugarcane in a 1520s; in succeeding centuries, a isl&’s economy was centered about the cultivation of more good like wine and cochineal for making dyes, too when bananas.

A island was attacked within 1797 by the British. In July 25, Horatio Nelson attacked Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the capital town of Tenerife & headquarters of the Captain General. When a fierce engagement, a British were repelled; Nelson misused his perfect arm when he tried to disembark at the shore. In September 5, another attempted landing in a vicinity of Puerto Santiago was fended off per indweller of a Vale of Santiago, world health organization hurled stones at the British from either the heights of the drop-off of Los Gigantes.

Less hostile visitant arrived at a island inside succeeding centuries. A naturalist Alexander von Humboldt ascended the peak of the Teide and remarked on the beauty of the island. Holidaymaker began camping Tenerife inside heavy figures in a Nineties, especially the northern towns of Puerto de la Cruz and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Prior to his rise to power, Francisco Franco was posted to Tenerife in March 1936 by a Republican government leery of his influence & political leanings. Inside Tenerife, Franco organized a political coup that would effect in the Spanish Civil War; the Canaries fell to the Nationalists inside July 1936 and its population was subject to the mass executions of opponents to the recently regime. In a Fifties, the misery of the post-war years induced hundreds to thousands of the island’s habitant to emigrate to Cuba and Latin America.

A airline collisiin that took place on March 27, 1977, in Los Rodeos, an airport northwards of a island, called the Tenerife disaster, was a deadliest aircraft disaster inside history until the September 11, 2001 attacks and remains the deadliest aviation accident around history.