Lanzarote is the easternmost of the autonomous Canary Islands ( Spain ). Situated in the Atlantic Ocean and approximately 125km from the coast of Africa. Covering 845.9 km2, it is the fourth largest of the Canary Islands. The first recorded name for the island, given by Angelino Dulcert, was Insula de Lanzarotus Marocelus, after the Genoese navigator Lancelotto Malocello, from which the modern name is...
In 2022, a total of 156.112 people lived on Lanzarote. The island government (Cabildo Insular) is based in the capital, Arrecife, with a population of 63.750. The majority of the inhabitants of Lanzarote ( approx 119.000) are Spanish, with a sizeable number of residents from other European nations, mainly British ( 6.415 ), Germans ( 2.196 ) and Italians ( 4.190 ). The island has its...
Lanzarote is of volcanic origin. The island was created about 35 million years ago by the Canary hotspot. Alfred Wegener arrived in 1912, studied the island, and showed how it fitted in with his theory of continental drift. The island and others were created after the breakup of the African and American continental plates. From 1730 to 1736 (for 2,053 days), the island was hit by a series of volcanic...
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