Arrecife
Arrecife is the capital city of Lanzarote, with the island's airport and sea port, and a population in 2022 of 63,750. It's a workaday commercial and administrative hub with limited tourist sights, and most visitors are bussed straight from the airport to their beach resorts further along the coast.
- Type: Town with 52,100 residents
- Description: municipality in the Canary Islands, Spain
- Also known as: “Lanzarote Arrecife”
- Postal code: 35500
- Neighbors: San Bartolomé and Teguise
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo and San Ginés.
Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo
Museum
San Ginés
Church
San Ginés is a church in Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain. Originally the location of a hermitage built in 1574 that contained images of Saint Peter and Saint Ginés, it was flooded and completely rebuilt in 1667.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Playa Honda.
Arrecife
- Categories: municipality of Spain, city, and locality
- Location: Las Palmas, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.964° or 28° 57′ 50″ north
Longitude
-13.5499° or 13° 32′ 60″ west
Population
52,100
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
ACE
United Nations Location Code
ES ACE
Open location code
7CW8XF72+H2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Arrecife” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أريثيفي”
- Arabic: “الرصيف”
- Aragonese: “Arrecife”
- Armenian: “Առեսիֆե”
- Armenian: “Արրեսիֆե”
- Asturian: “Arrecife”
- Basque: “Arrecife”
- Bengali: “অ্যারেসিফে”
- Catalan: “Arrecife”
- Cebuano: “Arrecife”
- Chechen: “Арресифе”
- Chinese: “阿雷西费”
- Czech: “Arrecife”
- Danish: “Arrecife”
- Dutch: “Arrecife”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اريثيفى, لاس بالماس”
- Esperanto: “Arrecife”
- Finnish: “Arrecife”
- French: “Arrecife”
- Galician: “Arrecife, As Palmas”
- Galician: “Arrecife, Lanzarote”
- Galician: “Arrecife”
- Georgian: “არესიფე”
- German: “Arrecife”
- Greek: “Αρεθίφε”
- Gujarati: “અરેસીફ”
- Hebrew: “ארסיפה”
- Hindi: “अररेसिफे”
- Hungarian: “Arrecife”
- Indonesian: “Arrecife”
- Interlingua: “Arrecife, Lanzarote”
- Interlingue: “Arrecife”
- Irish: “Arrecife”
- Italian: “Arrecife”
- Japanese: “アレシーフェ”
- Japanese: “アレシフェ”
- Kannada: “ಅರ್ರೆಸಿಫ್”
- Korean: “아레시페”
- Korean: “어레시페”
- Ladin: “Arrecife”
- Latin: “Arrecife”
- Latvian: “Aresife”
- Lithuanian: “Aresifė”
- Lombard: “Arrecife”
- Luxembourgish: “Arrecife”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Arrecife”
- Malagasy: “Arrecife”
- Malay: “Arrecife”
- Marathi: “अर्रेसिफ”
- Northern Frisian: “Arrecife”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arrecife”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arrecife”
- Norwegian: “Arrecife”
- Persian: “آرثیفه”
- Polish: “Arrecife”
- Portuguese: “Arrecife”
- Romanian: “Arrecife”
- Russian: “Аресифе”
- Russian: “Арресифе”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Arrecife”
- Serbian: “Аресифе”
- Sinhala: “ඇරෙකිෆේ”
- Slovak: “Arrecife”
- Slovenian: “Arrecife”
- South Azerbaijani: “آرثیفه”
- Spanish: “Arrecife”
- Swedish: “Arrecife”
- Tamil: “அர்ரேசிபெ”
- Tatar: “Арресифе”
- Telugu: “అర్రేసిఫే”
- Thai: “อาร์เรซิเฟ”
- Turkish: “Lanzarote Arrecife”
- Ukrainian: “Арресіфе”
- Urdu: “اریسیف”
- Urdu: “اریکیفی”
- Uzbek: “Arrecife”
- Venetian: “Arrecife”
- Vietnamese: “Arrecife”
- Waray (Philippines): “Arrecife”
- “Arrecife”
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