El Médano

El Médano is a town in Granadilla de Abona. El Médano is one of the world's best windsurfing and kitesurfing locations, with three different windsurfing spots, the Bay, the Harbour Wall, and Cabezo Beach.
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  • Type: Suburb with 2,770 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Tenerife
  • Also known as: El Medano” and “Puerto Medano
  • Postal code: 38612

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cave of Santo Hermano Pedro and Laboratorio de Energía Solar Termoeléctrica.

Cave
The Cave-Shrine of Santo Hermano Pedro is a Roman Catholic -shrine dedicated to Saint Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur. It is located in the municipality of , near El Medano on the south of the island of , at the end of the runway.

is an abandoned dish structure near to El Medano, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. It was built in 2008 to generate solar energy, but was constructed without permission and was abandoned in 2009.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Isidro.

Suburb
is a suburb, which is situated 3½ km northwest of El Médano.

El Médano

Latitude
28.0462° or 28° 2′ 46″ north
Longitude
-16.5382° or 16° 32′ 17″ west
Population
2,770
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
ES GND and ES MED
Open location code
7CW52FW6+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 32316580
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2518346
Wiki­data ID
Q205081
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Turkish—“El Médano” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: এল মেডানো
  • Catalan: El Médano
  • Cebuano: El Médano
  • Czech: El Médano
  • Dutch: El Médano
  • Egyptian Arabic: الميدانو
  • Estonian: El Médano
  • French: El Médano
  • German: El Médano
  • Italian: El Médano
  • Polish: El Medano
  • Romanian: El Médano
  • Russian: Эль Медано
  • Slovenian: El Médano
  • Spanish: El Medano
  • Spanish: El Médano
  • Swedish: El Médano
  • Turkish: El Médano

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “El Médano”. Photo: trolvag, CC BY-SA 3.0.