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 Because of the continuing rains pooring down on all seven Canary islands, the Canarian government has decided to close all (public) schools on all the islands tomorrow. Even the university has anounced at 21:47 that their doors will remain closed as well tomorrow Tuesday, 2 February.
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 Although at the time of writing we can only see blue skies with not a cloud in sight, for this weekend an orange weather alert has been issued.
Today, Friday, it will start to rain in the Western Canary islands, El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera and Tenerife, and that will slowly move to the East, reaching Gran Canaria probably in the evening.
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 "The original plans of starting early in 2010 had to be abandoned, due to bureaucracy" says Gerardo Morales, responsable for public relations at the Canadian company Harbour Air Seaplanes. Their plan is to first link both the capitals of Gran Canaria and Tenerife from harbour to harbour with sea planes.
The Canadian company is doing so already successfully back home in Canada, and what they try to achieve on the Canaries has not yet been done before in Spain, so paper work takes a bit longer than expected.
If all goes as planned, a one way ticket would cost 40 euro and the flight would take more or less 30 minutes. Every 40 minutes a new plane is to take off from Santa Cruz and one from Las Palmas.
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On Thursday, January 21 2010 at 21.13 hours, an earthquake occurred beneath the seabed between Gran Canaria and Tenerife. The earthquake had a magnitude of 2.6 on the Richter scale.
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As part of the city's efforts to promote itself as a tourist destination, Las Palmas is putting itself forward as a possible candidate for European Capital of Culture in 2016.
With Istanbul taking over the reins this week for the coming year, Las Palmas will have to work hard to catch up with the work that the other 13 Spanish cities have already undertaken as part of the candidacy process. The eventual winner of the Spanish candidacy will then have to compete with a Polish city for the title. The mayor of Las Palmas has cited the beneficial effect that holding the title has had on such cities as Glasgow which was the Cultural Capital in 1990 and received a tremendous boost to its perception as a tourist destination
Source: Canarias7 (16.1.10)
Las Palmas 2016 website |
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The annual Las Palmas Carnaval began last night, in advance of the official opening on Friday, with the preliminary of the Murgas (singing band) competition.
The full calendar can be found in the link below. Use Google Language Tools if you want to obtain an English translation.
Source: La Provincia (27.1.10)
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 Spanish and French researchers have defined the age, location, size and geochemistry of the volcanoes of Gran Canaria during the Holocene, 11,000 years ago, in order to draw up a map of volcanic hazards for the island. The research shows that the area of greatest volcanic activity is one of the most heavily populated areas in the north east of the island, which has suffered 24 eruptions over the period studied.
The team of French and Spanish scientists led by researchers from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and the "Jaume Almera" Institute of Earth Sciences (CSIC, Barcelona) combined the data from previous studies with the results of analysis of 13 new radiocarbon ages in order to gain an understanding of the history of the island and predict the areas to be struck by future volcanic eruptions.
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 Two tourists, a 67-year-old woman from Asturias (Spain) and a 55-year-old German, died on Thursday morning, January 21 2010. An unusually large wave surprised them while they were swimming in the sea near the Punta de Maspalomas, in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, on Gran Canaria.
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The mayor of San Bartolomé de Tirajana has responded to recent comments by declaring that the 2010 Maspalomas Carnaval will go ahead as planned from 11-21 March this year. Lack of coordination amongst the responsible organising groups prompted the Socialist Councillor for Tourism to air doubts that the event could not take place due to lack of time.
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