The airport of los Cangrejos
it connects through the island of El Hierro flights
daily to Tenerife, also different flights
magazines connect to Gran
Canaria, La Palma and La Gomera.
The Puerto de la Estaca allows daily maritime connections with Tenerife.
Before going on the island of El Hierro,
we advise to take information respect
the calendar of the festivities,
so that to be present in
occasion of the most famous recurrences
meaningful of the country. In fact it is during these
events that the fun and the culture are mostly gathered
of the tradition
island.
Altogether
the island of
El Hierro,
it occupies a surface of 224 kmq and it results situated to west of the archipelago of the islands canary.
For extension of the territory it is considered also the smallest
of the seven islands of the Canary that compose the archipelago,
it possesses good bathing equipments with structures
hotel and tourist modern.
The only town of the archipelago
what it doesn't lean out in the ocean
Atlantic is the chief town of the island of
El Hierro,
Valverde. The urban center results protected from a kind
of green crescent turns to
east and preserve unchanged still today the colonial historical aspect. It welcomes
more than halves her
population in a deprived urbanization of
tall buildings and of semaphores, while the rest
alive lost in the small farmhouses
in the island.
The temperatures of the coast of
El Hierro
they vary between the 19°C and the 23°C, even if in the tallest points,
particularly to north and to east, it is necessary to calculate some degree in less, besides for almost all
the duration of the year blows a moderate or strong wind.
Generally
the climate in the island of
El Hierro,
it results lukewarm and constant, determined by the interaction among the tides
harbors of the Saharan bench and the winds.
The temperature of the waters oscillates between the 19°C of January and the 23°C of September.
The sun is almost always present during every day of the year with strong intensity,
of rays solariums, therefore it is worthwhile to take
the due precautions against the excess of exposure to the sun, as the refreshing action
some wind hides the level of radiation of the sun that is received.
During the nights the sky results serene and clear.
The late discovery of the tourist possibilities of the island of El Hierro, has done in way of preserving the surface
from chaotic urbanizations that often deface the landscape and the nature, this shows that the inhabitants are aware
of the value of their earth.
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