In the territories of the island of La Gomera exist
of zones essentially devoted to the agriculture and
the breeding, among the picked products there are mostly the famous bananas
of the Canary, besides the tasty tomatoes, the avocado juicy, the perfumed papayas.
Sixth island for extension of the territory, Gomera it eternally enjoys of a spring climate
with middle temperatures of 18°C in winter and of 24°C in the summer. The rains are very scarce,
except that on the northern coasts. As the other adjacent islands the climate hears again of the
influences of the warm winds maintaining constant temperatures for almost all the year.
Geographically it results
situated to West of Tenerife, southeast of La Palma and Northeast of El Hierro.
It is a mass of surface that is brusquely risen by the sea as a reduced dome.
The form is almost round. It occupies a surface of 372 square kilometers. The maximum height is the tall one of
Garajonay with an altitude of
1.375 m.
To effect moves inside the island La
Gomera
it is worthwhile to rent an auto or a moped, or to use the service of the taxis,
while for the one who wants to visit the other adjacent islands they are available the ferries and the hydroplanes
for services of navigation.
The principal center of the island is San Sebastián de La Gomera. Administratively the island de La
Gomera
it is inclusive in the province of Saint Cruz de Tenerife.
La Gomera possesses a small airport in the south of the island to effect connections
almost exclusively with the other islands of the archipelago. The principal I bring some island it is
San Sebastián de La Gomera, with ferries for Saint Cruz de La Palma (toward La Palma),
Los Cristianos (toward Tenerife) and Puerto de the Estaca (toward El Hierro).
The primitive inhabitants of the island of
La Gomera they probably originated from
an area not specified of the
cordillera of the atlas in the north
Africa and they belonged to tribe devoted to the life by shepherd.
They are not known with precision the motivations of the emigrations.
You holds however that they came in
different distributed occasions
within twenty centuries, during
which remained isolated.
With the Europeans' arrival during the
XV century, the population
native and the farmers
they mixed him,
contributing to the birth of one
half-caste culture that developed him
above all beginning from the XVII
century.
The streets of inside communications of
this smaller island of the Canary
they are formed from roads full of
curves. Crossing her, he is able
to enjoy better than the landscape,
the small beaches and
pleasant as that of
Santa Catalina, in the ancient one I bring
of
Hermigua, or to others more
tourist as Valley Gran Rey, Playa Santiago and
St. Sebastián.
It will be also at times possible to hear the famous ones
you whistle with the
what in past they were sent
messages the shepherds of La Gomera.
As it regards the receptive structures, La Gomera
it has a comfortable net of
hotel and apartments to
Vallehermoso, Valley Gran Rey,
Alajeró. Besides you position long everybody
the island there are pleasant houses of
agriturismo, absorbed in
unforgettable landscapes.
The practice they make possible
of the sporting activities the harbors of
Valley Gran Rey, St. Sebastián,
Vueltas, in the place Playa
Santiago. From this last I bring they depart
the most greater part of the
direct boats to the zones
where the populations live of
whales and dolphins, together to others
sea mammals. Always from
this zone they are organized the various excursions and they depart
the boats
you destine to the immersion. In the island of La Gomera they are different
the club and the schools
what they teach underwater immersion.
Among the characteristic urban centers of the island of
La Gomera we remember to
south the small one I bring
fishing of Playa Santiago,
to west Chipude, to the feet of the
extraordinary monument
disposition called La Fortaleza.
Characteristic it results reeds the offered panorama
fertile give
cultivated terraces and from the palmetis
in the place Valley Gran Rey, over
to the countries of Agulo and Hermigua.
As it regards the curiosities we remember that
in the island of La Gomera is present a particular called language silbo gomero,
formed and entirely constituted by whistles. In past this type of language was used by the shepherds
to communicate to great and averages distances in the order of some kilometers, to overcome the mountainous obstacles.
Conceived by the first inhabitants of the island it also spread in smaller way in the other western islands
of the archipelago of the Canary.
The form of the language results to eight sounds, four of these represent the vowels,
while the others four are used as consonants.
In this way they are created around 4000 words.
To produce the sounds
they put on the fingers in
mouth and he blow in the desired way.
From a study conducted in 2005 it results that the communication of the silbo gomero
to cerebral level
it happens to the same way of the spoken language.
Considered the development of the today's systems of communication and with the purpose to preserve the of it I use,
the government has promoted the maintenance declaring the same one
patrimony of the Canary in 1999.
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