El Hierro
El Hierro is the smallest island of the Canary Islands. Despite this, the island is a tiny planet, where you can find all the possible climates and landscapes, from the desert around La Restinga to the most exuberant tropical in the Valverde area, without forgetting the beautiful and shocking volcanic landscapes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Canary Islands, Spain
- Also known as: “Fer”, “Fer I.”, “Fer Island”, “Ferro”, “Ferro I.”, “Ferro Island”, “Hero”, “Hierro”, “Island of Hierro”, “Isle of Fer”, “Isle of Ferro”, and “Isle of Hierro”
- Historically known as: “Hierro Island”
El Hierro
- Categories: volcanic island and landform
- Location: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“El Hierro” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “El Hierro”
- Arabic: “إل هييرو”
- Aragonese: “El Hierro”
- Aragonese: “Isla d’El Hierro”
- Asturian: “El Hierro”
- Azerbaijani: “El Hierro”
- Azerbaijani: “El-Hierro”
- Azerbaijani: “İerro”
- Basque: “El Hierro”
- Basque: “Hierro”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Ера”
- Breton: “El Hierro”
- Bulgarian: “Ел Йеро”
- Bulgarian: “Йеро”
- Catalan: “El Hierro”
- Catalan: “Hierro”
- Cebuano: “El Hierro”
- Chinese: “耶罗岛”
- Chinese: “耶羅島”
- Czech: “El Hierro”
- Czech: “Ferro”
- Danish: “El Hierro”
- Dutch: “El Hierro”
- Dutch: “Ferro”
- Dutch: “Hierro”
- Esperanto: “El Hierro”
- Estonian: “El Hierro”
- Estonian: “Ferro”
- Estonian: “Hierro”
- Finnish: “El Hierro”
- Finnish: “Ferro”
- French: “Autolasia”
- French: “El Hierro”
- French: “Ferro”
- French: “Ile de Fer”
- French: “Île de fer”
- French: “Île de Fer”
- French: “île du Méridien”
- French: “Île du Méridien”
- French: “Isla del Meridiano”
- French: “l’Isle de Fer”
- Galician: “El Hierro”
- Galician: “Illa de Hierro”
- Galician: “O Hierro”
- German: “El Hierro”
- German: “Isla de los mil volcanes”
- German: “Isla del Meridiano”
- Greek: “Ελ Ιέρρο”
- Greek: “Ελ Χιέρο”
- Greek: “Ιέρρο”
- Hebrew: “אל איירו”
- Hungarian: “El Hierro”
- Hungarian: “Hierro”
- Icelandic: “El Hierro”
- Inari Sami: “El Hierro”
- Indonesian: “El hierro”
- Indonesian: “El Hierro”
- Italian: “El Hierro”
- Italian: “Hierro”
- Japanese: “エル・イエロ島”
- Korean: “엘 이에로 섬”
- Korean: “엘 이에로”
- Korean: “엘이에로 섬”
- Korean: “엘이에로”
- Korean: “엘이에로섬”
- Latin: “Capraria”
- Latin: “Insula Ferri”
- Lithuanian: “El Hieras”
- Luxembourgish: “El Hierro”
- Macedonian: “Ел Јеро”
- Malay: “El Hierro”
- Northern Frisian: “El Hierro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Hierro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hierro”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “El Hierro”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isla del Meridiano”
- Norwegian: “Hierro”
- Occitan (post 1500): “El Hierro”
- Ossetian: “Иерро”
- Persian: “ال هیرو”
- Persian: “ایهرو”
- Polish: “El Hierro”
- Portuguese: “El hierro”
- Portuguese: “El Hierro”
- Portuguese: “Hierro”
- Romanian: “El hierro”
- Romanian: “El Hierro”
- Russian: “El Hierro”
- Russian: “Иерро”
- Russian: “Ферро”
- Sardinian: “El Hierro”
- Scottish Gaelic: “El Hierro”
- Serbian: “Јеро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Hierro”
- Slovak: “El Hierro (sopka)”
- Slovak: “El Hierro”
- Slovenian: “El Hierro”
- Spanish: “El Hierro”
- Spanish: “Esero”
- Spanish: “Eseró”
- Spanish: “Hierro (isla)”
- Spanish: “Hierro”
- Spanish: “Isla de El Hierro”
- Spanish: “Isla de Hierro”
- Spanish: “Isla de los mil volcanes”
- Spanish: “Isla del Hierro”
- Spanish: “Isla del Meridiano”
- Spanish: “Isla El Hierro”
- Spanish: “La Isla Chiquita”
- Swedish: “El Hierro”
- Swedish: “Ferro”
- Swedish: “Isla del Meridiano”
- Swedish: “Meridianön”
- Turkish: “El Hierro”
- Ukrainian: “Ієрро (острів)”
- Ukrainian: “Ієрро”
- Vietnamese: “El Hierro”
- Waray (Philippines): “El Hierro”
- Western Mari: “Иерро”
- Yue Chinese: “耶羅島”
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