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Garachico
Sign in to saveGarachico is a municipality and town on the northern coast of Tenerife, about 52 km West of the capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 50 km from Tenerife North Airport and 67 km from Tenerife South Airport. The town itself nestles below a 500m+ (1500 ft) cliff.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Garachico
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandera garachico.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Escudo garachico.png
- Settlement.image_map
- Tenerife municipio Garachico.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 200px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Municipal location in Tenerife
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Spain Tenerife#Canary Islands#Spain with Canary Islands
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of the town in Tenerife
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous community
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Island
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 29.28
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 10
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.blank_name
- Climate
- Settlement.blank_info
- Csa
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Garachico
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Tenerife
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 4940
- Area
- 29.28
- Elevation
- 10
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Shares border with
- Icod de los Vinos
- Official website
- www.garachico.es
- Image
- Garachico, en Santa Cruz de Tenerife (España).jpg
- Licence plate code
- TF
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- twinned administrative body
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Commons category
- Garachico
- postal code
- 38450
- topic's main category
- Category:Garachico
- male population
- 2442
- female population
- 2429
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Garachico is a municipality and town on the northern coast of Tenerife, about 52 km West of the capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 50 km from Tenerife North Airport and 67 km from Tenerife South Airport. The town itself nestles below a 500m+ (1500 ft) cliff.
The city of Garachico with its port was founded by a Jewish Genoan banker Cristóbal de Ponte after the conquest of Tenerife in 1496.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Garachico” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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