Valleseco
Sign in to saveValleseco is a town and a municipality of Las Palmas province, on the Canary Islands. It is in the northcentral part of Gran Canaria. Valleseco means "dry valley" in Spanish, but is actually one of the wettest municipalities of the island. Its population is 3,904 (2013), and the area is 22.11 km². The elevation is 1,000 m.
Key facts
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- Valleseco
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- Municipality
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- Gran Canaria municipio Valleseco.svg
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- Municipal location in Gran Canaria
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- Spain Province of Las Palmas#Canary Islands#Spain with Canary Islands
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- Location in the province of Las Palmas
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- Spain
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- Autonomous Region
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- Canary Islands
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- Province
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- Las Palmas
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- Island
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- Gran Canaria
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- Metric
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- 22.11
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Official name
- Valleseco
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Las Palmas
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 3775
- Area
- 22.11
- Elevation
- 1000
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Moya
- Official website
- www.valleseco.es
- Image
- Valleseco, en Gran Canaria (Las Palmas, España).jpg
- Licence plate code
- GC
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- Commons category
- Valleseco
- postal code
- 35340
- male population
- 1964
- female population
- 1785
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Places of interest
- The heart of the municipality
- The Barranco de la Virgen
- La Laguna
- The summit
- Gastronomy
- Festivals
- See also
- References
- External links
Valleseco is a town and a municipality of Las Palmas province, on the Canary Islands. It is in the northcentral part of Gran Canaria. Valleseco means "dry valley" in Spanish, but is actually one of the wettest municipalities of the island. Its population is 3,904 (2013), and the area is 22.11 km². The elevation is 1,000 m.
The town Valleseco is situated 3 km southwest of Teror and 17 km southwest of the city of Las Palmas. Its landscape is characterized by deep valleys and ravines and a great vegetal richness that has resulted in more than 80% of the territory being protected by Nature Reserves.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valleseco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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