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Holidayhomes on Gran Canaria

Monday, March 15th, 2010
There is no other island with such a conspicuous variety of landscapes like Gran Canaria. Only 200 km separated from the African coast and 1100 km from the Spanish mainland, Gran Canaria joins the archipelago of the Canary Islands.

In the heart of the island of Gran Canaria a number of ravines lead down to the coast, which gives it´s special characteristic shape to the island together with the volcanic origin.

The climate in Gran Canaria is generally mild and with a an average of about 21 degrees during the whole year.

The central mountain range divides the climate of the isle into the south and southwest clime. The south is marked by trade winds and more sunny weather ...
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Canary Market online

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
On a special website called Cosas Canarias you can find lots of items to buy in the Canary area. On Cosascanarias.com you find Audio/TV items, pets and pet accesories as well as goods for house and garden. For all who are interested in antiques, Cosascanarias.com sometimes has attractive offers. Cars and accesories are as well anounced on this webpage. Another rubric on the page of Cosascanarias.com ist Real Estate, where you can find offers for properties and rental objects in the area of the Canary archipelago. If you are looking for private contacts with people to share leisure time and hobbies, you can have a look at the announces on Cosascanarias.com. Vacations, journeys and excursions are as well offered on this variable website. There is as well a category about employment on the Cosascanarias.com site. Cosascanarias.com is lika a virtual market place on the Canary Isles, which offers you anything you ...
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Amusement park “Aqualand”

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Originally there were two amusement parks focussing on water fun at Gran Canaria: the so called “AquaSur” as well as the “Ocean Park”. The last one was located at mid Maspalomas, but it is out of order nowadays. The “Aquasur” finally turned into “Aqualand” in the course of the years and makes the largest leisure park of the isle by now. Covering a surface area of about 90.000 square metres this theme park aims at offering a great amount of water- based attractions such as for example more than 30 water slides. There is a certain area addressing at children which also contains a great variety of the park’s mascot, the “Aqualand”- ape. Another amazing attraction is the famous “Tornado”, a closed flume entertaining visitors by presenting light- and sound effects while sliding. Furthermore there are tourist features like the “Mamut” for four persons, the “Crazy Race” with nine parallel ...
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Drinkable tap water…

Thursday, October 25th, 2007
The tap water in the city of Las Palmas, is known to be very bad tasting. Though the sanitary quality of the water is acceptable already, enough to be drunk, the taste is not as good to be comparable with bottled water. This is about to change. José Luís Talavera, the production director of 'Emalsa', Las Palmas' water company, stated that they're testing a new system at the 'Las Palmas III' desalination plant which will be working in a matter of more or less a month. This new system will treat the water to achieve a better taste of it, for now its rather disgusting than tasteful. Well, that is good news. Its only thought to be done in Las Palmas at first, for its very expensive to be done anywhere else. Either way, great news, one step more towards future.

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