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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pediant, Public domain.
Photo: trolvag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- 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 of Santo Hermano Pedro
Cave
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cave-Shrine of Santo Hermano Pedro is a Roman Catholic cave-shrine dedicated to Saint Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur. It is located in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona, near El Medano on the south of the island of Tenerife, at the end of the Tenerife South Airport runway.
Laboratorio de Energía Solar Termoeléctrica
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Laboratorio de Energía Solar Termoeléctrica 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.
San Isidro
Suburb
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
San Isidro is a suburb, which is situated 3½ km northwest of El Médano.
El Médano
- Categories: human settlement, beach, surf spot, and locality
- Location: Granadilla de Abona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
28.0462° or 28° 2′ 46″ northLongitude
-16.5382° or 16° 32′ 17″ westPopulation
2,770Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 32316580OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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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.