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Fasnia is a town and a municipality in the eastern part of the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The municipality extends for from the mountainous interior to the beaches on the Atlantic. Its population is 2,873 (2013). The TF-1 motorway passes through the municipality.

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Fasnia
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Municipality
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Tenerife - Fasnia - church 03.jpg
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Old church in Fasnia
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Bandera_de_Fasnia_(Con_Escudo).svg
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Tenerife municipio Fasnia.svg
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Municipal location in Tenerife
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Spain Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife#Canary Islands#Spain with Canary Islands
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Location in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
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Country
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Autonomous Region
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Canary Islands
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Province
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife
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Island
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Tenerife
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Mayor

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Fasnia is a town and a municipality in the eastern part of the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The municipality extends for from the mountainous interior to the beaches on the Atlantic. Its population is 2,873 (2013). The TF-1 motorway passes through the municipality.

==Etymology== The name of the municipality comes from that of its administrative capital, being a term of Guanche origin that also appears in the historical documentation with the Fasnea variant.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fasnia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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