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Autonomous region:	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...
Province:	Santa Cruz de Tenerife Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province) Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife also Province of Santa Cruz is a province of Spain, consisting of the western part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. It consists of about half of the Atlantic archipelago, including the islands of Tenerife, La Gomera, El Hierro, and La Palma, and...
Island:	Tenerife Tenerife Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...
Area Area Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat... :	42.04 km²
Population Population A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals... :	9,988 (2001)
Population density Population density Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans... :	237.58/km²
Elevation Elevation The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface .... : Lowest: Centre: Highest:	Atlantic Ocean 600 m about 1,200 m (north)
Length of coastline:	about 4 to 5 km
Postal code:	-
Website:	www.sanmigueldeabona.org

San Miguel de Abona (first part, Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

for Saint Michael) is the name of a municipality, town, and valley in the southeastern part of the island of Tenerife

Tenerife

Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...

, one of the 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...

, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province)

Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife also Province of Santa Cruz is a province of Spain, consisting of the western part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. It consists of about half of the Atlantic archipelago, including the islands of Tenerife, La Gomera, El Hierro, and La Palma, and...

. San Miguel de Abona is a suburb or a cluster of Tenerife Sur. The municipality is located in the southern end of the island. Arico is on a valley setting. Its estimated population is 9 988. San Miguel de Abona is linked with the TF1 Motorway

TF1 Motorway

The TF-1 is a superhighway encircling the eastern and the southern parts of the island of Tenerife . The TF-1 motorway runs from the capital Santa Cruz in the north to Adeje with its major tourist resorts Los Cristianos and Playa de las Américas in the south of the island...

and has an interchange south of San Miguel de Abona and north of its beaches and is also linked with the old highway linking Arona and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Its economy are businesses, tourism and some agriculture. In the south of the municipality, on the coastline, lies the golf course and holiday/residential village of Golf del Sur

Golf del Sur

Golf del Sur is a holiday resort and golf course situated in Tenerife, Canary Islands within the municipality of San Miguel de Abona.In 1989, 1992, 1993 and 1994, Golf del Sur hosted the Tenerife Open tournament.-History:...

. Some farmlands and a natural preserve also exist towards the coastline, while the mountains dominate much of the municipality and to the north. Tenerife South Airport

Tenerife South Airport

Tenerife South Airport , previously known as Tenerife South-Reina Sofia Airport, is one of two international airports located on the island of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands . Between its opening and the end of 2006, a total of 173,912,207 passengers passed through the airport...

is in the eastern portion of the municipality.

Historical population

Year	Population	Change	Density
March 1, 1991	5,118	-	-
May 1, 1996	5,776	-	-
2001	8,398	-	199.95/km²
2002	9,174	-	-
2003	9,988	-	237.58/km²
2004	10,802	-	259.23/km²

Other

San Miguel de Abona has schools, a lyceum, a gymnasium, banks, churches, a beaches and a few squares plaza
Plaza
Plaza is a Spanish word related to "field" which describes an open urban public space, such as a city square. All through Spanish America, the plaza mayor of each center of administration held three closely related institutions: the cathedral, the cabildo or administrative center, which might be...

s.

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Coalición Canaria San Miguel de Abona

Hotel Rural San Miguel de Abona

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Autonomous region:	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...
Province:	Santa Cruz de Tenerife Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province) Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife also Province of Santa Cruz is a province of Spain, consisting of the western part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. It consists of about half of the Atlantic archipelago, including the islands of Tenerife, La Gomera, El Hierro, and La Palma, and...
Island:	Tenerife Tenerife Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...
Area Area Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat... :	42.04 km²
Population Population A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals... :	9,988 (2001)
Population density Population density Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans... :	237.58/km²
Elevation Elevation The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface .... : Lowest: Centre: Highest:	Atlantic Ocean 600 m about 1,200 m (north)
Length of coastline:	about 4 to 5 km
Postal code:	-
Website:	www.sanmigueldeabona.org

San Miguel de Abona (first part, Spanish

Spanish language

for Saint Michael) is the name of a municipality, town, and valley in the southeastern part of the island of Tenerife

Tenerife

, one of the Canary Islands

Canary Islands

, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province)

TF1 Motorway

Golf del Sur

. Some farmlands and a natural preserve also exist towards the coastline, while the mountains dominate much of the municipality and to the north. Tenerife South Airport

Tenerife South Airport

is in the eastern portion of the municipality. -->

Statistics Autonomous region: Canary Islands

Canary Islands

Province: Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province)

Island: Tenerife

Tenerife

Area

Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...

: 42.04 km² Population

Population

A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...

: 9,988 (2001) Population density

Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...

: 237.58/km² Elevation

Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

:
Lowest:
Centre:
Highest:
Atlantic Ocean
600 m
about 1,200 m (north) Length of coastline: about 4 to 5 km Postal code: - Website: www.sanmigueldeabona.org

San Miguel de Abona (first part, Spanish

Spanish language

for Saint Michael) is the name of a municipality, town, and valley in the southeastern part of the island of Tenerife

Tenerife

, one of the Canary Islands

Canary Islands

, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province)

TF1 Motorway

Golf del Sur

. Some farmlands and a natural preserve also exist towards the coastline, while the mountains dominate much of the municipality and to the north. Tenerife South Airport

Tenerife South Airport

is in the eastern portion of the municipality.

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