Guinate
Encyclopedia
Guinate is a village
in the municipality
of Haría
in northern Lanzarote
in the Las Palmas
province of Spain (the Eastern Canary Islands
).
The village has a large (45000 m2) tropical park which has numerous bird species, including penguins, and many plants and animals. On the cost there is El Mirador de Guinate which has fine views of the coast and of several small islands.
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
in the municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
of Haría
Haría, Las Palmas
Haría is a municipality in the northern portion of the island of Lanzarote in the Las Palmas province of the Canary Islands and is the northernmost and easternmost Canarian municipality...
in northern Lanzarote
Lanzarote
Lanzarote , a Spanish island, is the easternmost of the autonomous Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 125 km off the coast of Africa and 1,000 km from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering 845.9 km2, it stands as the fourth largest of the islands...
in the Las Palmas
Las Palmas (province)
The Province of Las Palmas is a province of Spain, consisting of the eastern part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.-Composition:...
province of Spain (the Eastern Canary Islands
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
).
The village has a large (45000 m2) tropical park which has numerous bird species, including penguins, and many plants and animals. On the cost there is El Mirador de Guinate which has fine views of the coast and of several small islands.