Arafo
Arafo is a municipality of the southeastern part of the island of Tenerife in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, on the Canary Islands. The town Arafo is situated 5 km west of the coast town Candelaria and 22 km southwest of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 5,510 residents
- Description: municipality of Tenerife in Spain
- Also known as: “38004”
- Neighbors: Candelaria, Güímar, and La Orotava
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pyramids of Güímar and Iglesia de San Juan Degollado.
Pyramids of Güímar
Museum
Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
The Pyramids of Güímar are six rectangular pyramid-shaped, terraced structures built from lava stone without the use of mortar. They are located in the district of Chacona, part of the town of Güímar on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain. Pyramids of Güímar is situated 4 km southeast of Arafo.
Iglesia de San Juan Degollado
Church
Photo: Martely, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Iglesia de San Juan Degollado is a church.
Mirador de Chimague
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mirador de Chimague is a scenic viewpoint, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Arafo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Güímar and Candelaria.
Güímar
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Güímar is a town on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands archipelago. It is best known for its 6 Guanche pyramids, and for a ravine called the Barranco de Badajoz.
Candelaria
Candelaria is a city on the east shore of the island Tenerife in the Canary Islands archipelago. It is a city of 28,000 inhabitants, best known for its basilica which includes the sculpture of the Virgin Mary and mural paintings.
Arafo
- Category: municipality of Spain
- Location: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Arafo” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Arafo”
- Arabic: “أرافو”
- Aragonese: “Arafo”
- Asturian: “Arafo”
- Basque: “Arafo”
- Catalan: “Arafo”
- Cebuano: “Arafo”
- Chechen: “Арафо”
- Chinese: “阿拉福”
- Czech: “Arafo”
- Danish: “Arafo”
- Dutch: “Arafo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ارافو”
- Esperanto: “Arafo”
- French: “Arafo (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)”
- French: “Arafo (santa cruz de ténérife)”
- French: “Arafo (Santa Cruz De Ténérife)”
- French: “Arafo”
- Galician: “Arafo”
- Georgian: “არაფო”
- German: “Arafo”
- Hungarian: “Arafo”
- Interlingua: “Arafo”
- Irish: “Arafo”
- Italian: “Arafo”
- Japanese: “アラフォ”
- Kabyle: “Arafu”
- Ladin: “Arafo”
- Latin: “Arafo”
- Lombard: “Arafo”
- Malay: “Arafo”
- Northern Frisian: “Arafo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arafo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Arafo”
- Persian: “آرافو”
- Polish: “Arafo”
- Portuguese: “Arafo”
- Russian: “Арафо”
- Slovak: “Arafo”
- South Azerbaijani: “آرافو”
- Spanish: “Arafo (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)”
- Spanish: “Arafo”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵔⴰⴼⵓ”
- Swedish: “Arafo”
- Tatar: “Арафо”
- Turkish: “Arafo”
- Ukrainian: “Арафо”
- Uzbek: “Arafo”
- Venetian: “Arafo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Arafo”
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