Arucas
Arucas is a municipality in the northern part of the island of Gran Canaria, province of Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Arucas borders Las Palmas to the west and is part of its urban area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 36,800 residents
- Description: municipality of Spain
- Also known as: “35006” and “Arucas, Las Palmas”
- Neighbors: Las Palmas
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of San Juan Bautista and Jardin de la Marquesa de Arucas.
Church of San Juan Bautista
Church
The Church of San Juan Bautista or Arucas Church, is a Catholic church located in the old town of Arucas, in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Construction began on 19 March 1909, and took over 68 years.
Jardin de la Marquesa de Arucas
Garden
Photo: Jayen466, Public domain.
Jardin de la Marquesa de Arucas is a garden.
Statue of Domingo Rivero
Work of art
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Statue of Domingo Rivero is a work of art.
Arucas
- Category: municipality of Spain
- Location: Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Arucas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أروكاس”
- Aragonese: “Arucas”
- Armenian: “Արուկաս”
- Asturian: “Arucas”
- Basque: “Arucas”
- Catalan: “Arucas (Gran Canaria)”
- Catalan: “Arucas (Gran Canària)”
- Catalan: “Arucas (Las Palmas)”
- Catalan: “Arucas”
- Cebuano: “Arucas”
- Chechen: “Арукас”
- Chinese: “阿魯卡斯”
- Chinese: “阿鲁卡斯”
- Dagbani: “Arucas”
- Danish: “Arucas”
- Dutch: “Arucas”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اروكاس”
- Esperanto: “Arucas”
- Finnish: “Arucas”
- French: “Arucas”
- Galician: “Arucas”
- Georgian: “არუკასი”
- German: “Arucas”
- Hebrew: “ארוקאס”
- Hungarian: “Arucas”
- Interlingua: “Arucas”
- Irish: “Arucas”
- Italian: “Arucas”
- Japanese: “アルーカス (ラス・パルマス)”
- Ladin: “Arucas”
- Latin: “Arucas”
- Lithuanian: “Arukas”
- Lithuanian: “Arukasas”
- Lombard: “Arucas”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Arucas”
- Malagasy: “Arucas”
- Malay: “Arucas, Las Palmas”
- Malay: “Arucas”
- Northern Frisian: “Arucas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arucas, Las Palmas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arucas”
- Norwegian: “Arucas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Arucas”
- Polish: “Arucas”
- Portuguese: “Arucas”
- Russian: “Арукас”
- Serbian: “Арукас”
- Slovenian: “Arucas, Gran Canaria”
- Slovenian: “Arucas”
- Spanish: “Arucas”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵔⵓⴽⴰⵙ”
- Swedish: “Arucas, Las Palmas”
- Swedish: “Arucas”
- Tachelhit: “Arukas”
- Tatar: “Арукас”
- Turkish: “Arucas”
- Ukrainian: “Арукас”
- Uzbek: “Arucas”
- Uzbek: “Arukas”
- Uzbek: “Арукас”
- Venetian: “Arucas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Arucas”
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Notable Places Nearby
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