Candelaria

Candelaria is a city on the east shore of the island in the 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.
  • Locality with about 29,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 240 metres (790 feet)
  • Description: municipality of Tenerife, Spain
  • Also known as
    “38011”
    “Candelaria, Tenerife”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Basilica of Candelaria and Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias.
The Basilica of the Royal Marian Shrine of Our Lady…
Cueva de Achbinico, also called cave of San Blas…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Candelaria and Las Caletillas.
is a village.
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Latitude
28.3581° or 28° 21′ 29″ north
Longitude
-16.3843° or 16° 23′ 3″ west
Open location code
7CW59J58+67
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Candelaria” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كانديلاريا، سانتا كروث دي تينيريفه”
  • Arabic: “كانديلاريا”
  • Aragonese: “Candelaria (Tenerife)”
  • Aragonese: “Candelaria”
  • Asturian: “Candelaria”
  • Basque: “Candelaria”
  • Bosnian: “Candelaria”
  • Bulgarian: “Канделариа”
  • Bulgarian: “Канделария”
  • Catalan: “Candelaria”
  • Cebuano: “Candelaria”
  • Chechen: “Канделария (Канаран гӀайренаш)”
  • Chechen: “Канделария”
  • Chinese: “坎德拉里亚”
  • Chinese: “坎德拉里亞”
  • Croatian: “Candelaria”
  • Czech: “Candelaria”
  • Danish: “Candelaria”
  • Dutch: “Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife”
  • Dutch: “Candelaria”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانديلاريا”
  • Esperanto: “Candelaria (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)”
  • Esperanto: “Candelaria”
  • Finnish: “Candelaria”
  • French: “Candelaria”
  • Galician: “Candelaria”
  • Georgian: “კანდელარია (კანარის კუნძულები)”
  • Georgian: “კანდელარია”
  • German: “Candelaria”
  • Greek: “Κανδελάρια”
  • Hebrew: “קאנדלאריה”
  • Hebrew: “קנדלאריה”
  • Hebrew: “קנדלריה”
  • Hungarian: “Candelaria”
  • Interlingua: “Candelaria”
  • Irish: “Candelaria”
  • Italian: “Candelaria”
  • Japanese: “カンデラリア”
  • Korean: “칸델라리아”
  • Ladin: “Candelaria”
  • Latin: “Candelaria”
  • Lithuanian: “Kandelarija”
  • Lombard: “Candelaria (Canarie)”
  • Lombard: “Candelaria”
  • Malay: “Candelaria, Tenerife”
  • Northern Frisian: “Candelaria (Teneriffa)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Candelaria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Candelaria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Candelaria”
  • Norwegian: “Candelaria”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Candelaria”
  • Persian: “کاندلاریا”
  • Polish: “Candelaria”
  • Portuguese: “Candelaria”
  • Romanian: “Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife”
  • Russian: “Канделария”
  • Serbian: “Канделарија”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاندلاریا”
  • Spanish: “Candelaria”
  • Swedish: “Candelaria”
  • Tagalog: “Candelaria”
  • Tatar: “Канделария (Канар утраулары)”
  • Tatar: “Канделария”
  • Turkish: “Candelaria, Tenerife”
  • Turkish: “Candelaria”
  • Ukrainian: “Канделарія”
  • Urdu: “کاندیلاریا، ٹینرائف”
  • Uzbek: “Candelaria”
  • Uzbek: “Cанделариа”
  • Venetian: “Candelaria (Canàrie)”
  • Venetian: “Candelaria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Candelaria, Espanya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Candelaria, Islas Canarias”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Candelaria”

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