What to see in Lanzarote: Places, sites and natural parks

Lanzarote, the easternmost and northernmost of the Canary Islands, covers an area of 886 km2, including the islands of the Archipelago Chinito, formed by La Graciosa, Alegranza and Montaña Clara and, even for an island of volcanic origin and appearance, its landscape is flat and slightly hilly with a maximum height that reaches 700 meters above sea level.

With seven municipalities: Arrecife Haria San Bartolome, Teguise, Tias, Yaiza Tinajo and the island hosts a population of approximately 125,000 people, mostly residents in south-central. The capital, Arrecife, home to half of the island population and is the administrative and commercial center of the island, near the airport, which maintains daily flights to other islands and the Iberian Peninsula, and with regular flights major European cities.


Declared in 1993 as a Biosphere Reserve by the Organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), by high natural values it contains, Lanzarote is one of the protected areas representing the main ecosystems of the world, where land uses are strictly regulated by a land use plan and urban development that affects the whole island, which has become the global benchmark of natural architecture and how tradition and modernity can bring to give the best of themselves .

The island has had as its main occupation and livelihood of fishing and agriculture, to the gradual entry of the tourism sector, which has opted for some services and facilities of excellent quality, while respectful of the environment and the environment .

WHAT TO VISIT IN LANZAROTE?

Lanzarote as a natural area offers diverse landscapes, from vast tracts of different types of lava, which can be found in the Timanfaya National Park and Badlands of the crown to wind-sand fields in Famara jable and unbeatable marine and coastal environments as River between La Graciosa and Lanzarote and the beaches of the southeast of the island, and there are many species and subspecies of flora and fauna.

On their journey find the most amazing volcanic areas where man has managed to combine art and nature, creating spaces of great beauty and spectacular, many of them work of Cesar Manrique, the most universal artist, who became lava desert oases, and where you can enjoy live music and dance.

This Network of Centers for Arts, Culture and Tourism, publicly owned, are real works of art and emblems deLanzarote representative, and provide a synthesis of natural and cultural values of the Island

When traveling to Lanzarote you can also enjoy a variety of beaches spread along its entire coastline, clear waters, fine white sand and dark calm water or high waves, and where the forms Volcanic house an interesting marine life.

PROTECTED AREAS

In Lanzarote Thirteen sites have been declared Protected Natural Areas, with a total protected area which represents 41% of the island, mostly in the municipality of Yaiza.

These are:

1. Timanfaya National Park: In the west central part of the island, with its territory divided between the towns of Yaiza and jars, is a must visit suviaje. It will see a variety of geological phenomena related to volcanic field and a high biodiversity. Among the craters, almost aligned in a line of fracture, the most important volcanoes are located in the central part thereof, between the mountains of Timanfaya and cracked.

2. Chinito Archipelago Nature Park: Formed by the islets of La Graciosa, Alegranza, Montaña Clara Roques de, East and West and the Massif de Famara, houses one of the most unique landscapes of the Canary Islands to the place of greatest diversity of plants endemic to the archipelago, and one of the best havens for birds Canaria.

3. Volcanoes Natural Park: Situated near the National Park, collected, after this last, the best example of historical lava flows.

4. Crown National Monument: Northeast of Lanzarote, includes a significant area of badlands and lava, with extensive areas of Euphorbia balsamifera Tabaibales and extensive areas of volcanic tubes, with a great diversity of endemic species.

5. Ajaches National Monument: It is next to Famara Massif, the oldest geologic unit on the island with paleontological deposits of Pliocene fossils.

6. Cave Natural Monument of the Naturalists: One of the largest volcanic tubes, with spectacular formations Lavacicle, similar to stalactites but volcanic character.

7. Islet National Monument Falcons: Structure not buried by volcanic eruptions of 1730, that is a haven for flora and fauna.

8. Mountains National Monument Fire: Natural area that collects all the cones that formed in the eruption of 1730 to 1736.

9. Tenegüime Protected Landscape: A small ravine with a lot of Aboriginal remains and preserved vegetation.

10. The Geria Protected Landscape: Landscape configured from the latest eruption of the island, with original farming systems.

11. Site of scientific interest in the Janubio: important refuge for migratory birds.

12. Site of scientific interest Jameos: One system of caves and volcanic tubes world's most interesting, with species adapted to the darkness within. Water as Jameos.

13. Nature Reserve Islet: Created to protect the important values for housing in any activity to be conducted inside.

WEATHER Lanzarote

On your vacation to this island may also enjoy an exceptional climate with an average temperature throughout the year to 22 º C, which is due to both geographical location and the influence of the sea. Despite the proximity of the Sahara desert, desert climate is not because the cold sea current from the Gulf of Mexico acts as a regulator atmospheric, especially in coastal areas.

TIPS visiting Lanzarote:

Finally, advise that you can get an offer or a flight to Lanzarote. Lanzarote flight discount hotel through internet and without having to wait to get there or go to a travel agency that will always be more expensive. Car hire at Lanzarote airport is a good option if you have not had time to do it on the internet that is where they usually give discounts.