La Palma
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Geografie | |
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Location | Atlantic Ocean |
Coordinates | 28°40′N 17°52′W / 28.667°N 17.867°W |
Airchipelagae | Canary Islands |
Aurie | 708.32 km2 (273.48 sq mi) |
Coastline | 166 km (103.1 mi) |
Heichest elevation | 2,423 m (7,949 ft) |
Admeenistration | |
Spain | |
Demografics | |
Demonym | palmero/a |
Population | 81,863 |
Pop. density | 115.6 /km2 (299.4 /sq mi) |
Leids | Spaingie, speceefically Canarian Spaingie |
Additional information | |
Time zone | |
• Summer (DST) |
La Palma (Spaingie pronunciation: [la ˈpalma]) is the maist north-wasterly o the Canary Islands, Africa. La Palma haes a aurie o 706 km2 makkin it the fift lairgest o the seiven main Canary Islands. The total population is aboot 86,000, o which 18,000 (2003 data) live in the caipital, Santa Cruz de La Palma an aboot 20,000 (2004 data) in Los Llanos de Aridane.
In 1815, the German geologist Leopold von Buch visitit the Canary Islands. It wis as a result o his visit tae La Palma an Tenerife where he visitit the Las Cañadas an Taburiente calderas, that the Spaingie wird for cauldron - "caldera" - wis introducit intae the Inglis leid geological vocabular. La Palma haes "Sister Ceety" status wi El Dorado Hills, Californie, Unitit States.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ a b c "Estadística del Territorio" [Territory Statistics] (in Spainish). Instituto Canario de Estadística (ISTAC). Retrieved 14 August 2019.
- ↑ "Real Decreto 1458/2018, de 14 de diciembre, por el que se declaran oficiales las cifras de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal referidas al 1 de enero de 2018" [Royal Decree 1458/2018, of 14 December, by which the population values resulting from the review of the municipal register of 01 January 2018 are declared official] (PDF). BOE (in Spainish). 29 December 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
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