Arona
Map
Statistics
Autonomous region:	Canary Islands
Province:	Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Island:	Tenerife
Area:	81.79 km²
Population:	59,395 (2004)
Population density:	726.19/km²
Elevation: Lowest: Centre: Highest:	Atlantic Ocean 610 m 615 m (Vento)
Lenght of coastline:	23.71 km
Postal code:	E-38640
Area/distance code:	-
Location:	28.1/28°6' N lat. 16.667/16°40' W long.
Car designation:	TF
Website:	www.arona.org
Politics
Mayor:	José Alberto González Reverón (CC)

The Arona borough is located on the southern part of the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The borough covers an area of 81.79 square kilometres comprising 4% of the islands area and is 81km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the island's capital. The population of the borough in 1996 was 28,208 and has grown rapidly in recent years due to the growth of a tourist industry and was one of the fastest between 2000 and 2002 in the Canary Islands. The metropolitan area is about 120,000 with Adeje and San Miguel de Abona. Arona has a pleasant climate with temperatures ranging from 20 to 25 degrees celsius. Notable parts of the borough include the tourist resorts of Los Cristianos, Playa de las Americas, Costa del Silencio and Las Galletas. Arona also features Punta Salemas, the southernmost point on the island of Tenerife. Image File history File links File links The following pages link to this file: Arona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Categories: Spain geography stubs | Canary Islands | Provinces of Spain ... Flag of Tenerife Tenerife (English also Teneriffe), a Spanish island, is the largest of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... Postal codes were introduced in Spain in 1976, when CTT introduced automated sorting. ... A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... This article is part of or related to the Liberalism series Categories: Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | Liberal parties | Spanish political parties ... Flag of Tenerife Tenerife (English also Teneriffe), a Spanish island, is the largest of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Santa Cruz de Tenerife (2003 population 220,022) is a Spanish city on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. ... The Arona borough is located on the southern part of the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. ...

Arona is accessed with the superhighway to the south with the TF1 linking Adeje and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The superhighway was first linked in the 1990s. The old highway runs within the coastline. The farmlands once covered most of Arona now covers the area around Arona. The mountains lie to the north. Flag of Tenerife Tenerife (English also Teneriffe), a Spanish island, is the largest of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. ...

The area was sparsely populated in the initial centuries since the settlement of the island. While Viera y Clavijo mentioned a small village of the same name in an early work on the islands, a church was not built until the 17th century and this church did not obtain the status of a parish church until March 1796.

The economy until the twentieth century was based on fishing and agriculture including cochineal, bananas and cattle. There was also a small quarry in the fishing village of Los Cristianos in the nineteenth century. Binomial name Dactylopius coccus Costa, 1835 Synonyms Cochineal is an expensive crimson or carmine dye derived from the cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus), a scale insect in the suborder Homoptera, native to tropical and subtropical South America and Mexico. ...

In the first half of the twentieth century, the population grew slowly despite a slump in cochineal prices, a general decline in farming and the Spanish Civil War. However, the economy and population has grown rapidly in recent years as it has become a popular tourist destination. The population has grown from 13,556 in 1981 to 28,208 in 1996. The 2005 population has finally reached over 60,000. In contrast, the borough had a population of approximately 2,000 in 1901. The tourism industry employs 60% of the workforce.

Notable Areas

Los Cristianos is one of the main tourist centres on the south coast of Tenerife. Originally a quaint fishing village the resort has undergone some major expansion over the last twenty years and is now a bustling resort. However, despite the town’s growth it still retains much of its original character.

Playa de las Americas was for many years the party centre of the Canary Islands with night clubs providing cheap alcohol with trouble often occurring. Many of the more trouble prone clubs have now closed down and the resort is targeting higher income tourists.

Las Galletas is a fishing village situated between Los Cristianos and the Reina Sofía Airport in the south. It also has some tourist facilities. It has also become a tourist resort. The beach on Playas de Las Vistas has been refurbished with sand from the sea bed turning it into one of the longest beaches on Tenerife. Reina Sofía Airport is an international airport, located on the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. ...

Historical population

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External References

• History of Arona borough
• Geographic information on Arona borough
• Tourist information on notable areas of Tenerife including Arona
• Tenerife.net article on Arona
• Tenerife.com article on beaches
• Map and aerial photos
  • Street map: Street map from Mapquest, MapPoint or Google
  • Satellite images: Google
• Coordinates: 28° 6´0“N, 16° 40´0“W

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