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Arrecife

Arrecife is the capital city of , 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.
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  • Type: Town with 50,300 residents
  • Description: municipality in the Canary Islands, Spain
  • Also known as: “Lanzarote Arrecife”
  • Postal code: 35500
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arrecife town hall and San Ginés.

Town hall
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Church
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is a church in Arrecife, , 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.

Museum
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is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Playa Honda.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 4 km west of Arrecife.

Arrecife

Latitude
28.964° or 28° 57′ 50″ north
Longitude
-13.5499° or 13° 32′ 60″ west
Population
50,300
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
ACE
United Nations Location Code
ES ACE
Open location code
7CW8XF72+H2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2486179336
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2521570
Wiki­data ID
Q647543
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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: “اریکیفی”
  • Uzbek: “Arrecife”
  • Venetian: “Arrecife”
  • Vietnamese: “Arrecife”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arrecife”
  • “Arrecife”

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