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.
- Island
- …has about 11,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,500 metres (4,920 feet)
- …was formerly known as “Hierro Island”
- Description: One of the main islands of the Canary archipelago, 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”“Isle of Hierro”
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Latitude
27.742° or 27° 44′ 31″ north
Longitude
-17.9993° or 17° 59′ 58″ west
Open location code
7CV4P2R2+Q7
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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: “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: “Île de Fer”
- 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: “Insel mit Seele”
- German: “Isla con alma”
- 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”
- Italian: “El Hierro”
- Italian: “Hierro”
- Japanese: “エル・イエロ島”
- Korean: “엘 이에로 섬”
- Korean: “엘 이에로”
- 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: “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: “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”
- Ukrainian: “Ферро”
- Urdu: “ال ایییرو”
- Uzbek: “Ferro”
- Vietnamese: “El Hierro”
- Waray (Philippines): “El Hierro”
- Western Mari: “Иерро”
- Yue Chinese: “耶羅島”
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