Lanzarote
Lanzarote is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean 130 km west of North Africa and 1,000 km southwest of mainland Spain. With a population of 156,112 in 2022, it's the fourth largest of the Canary Islands, about half the size of its neighbour Fuerteventura.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Arrecife and Teguise.
Arrecife
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Arrecife is the capital city of Lanzarote, with the island's airport and sea port, and a population in 2022 of 63,750. It's a workaday commercial and administrative hub with limited tourist sights, and most visitors are bussed straight from the airport to their beach resorts further along the coast.
Teguise
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Teguise is a town in the north of Lanzarote, with a population of 1776 in 2018. It was the island's capital until 1852 and is the seat of a municipality spanning the two coasts.
Haría
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Haría is a village in Lanzarote that gives its name to the municipality covering the north end of the island, with a population in 2020 of 5,263. This page likewise covers the entire north end of Lanzarote, but not the islands of La Graciosa or Montaña Clara.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as San Bartolomé and Yaiza.
San Bartolomé
San Bartolomé is a town and municipality on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. In 2022 the municipality had a population of 18,989, but this includes Playa Honda beach resort and Arrecife Airport, both effectively part of the capital Arrecife.
Yaiza
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Yaiza is a village on the island of Lanzarote. It's the admin centre for the southern part of the island, but the main visitor attraction is that it's an access point for Timanfaya National Park, the only UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserve dedicated entirely to geology.
Playa Blanca
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Playa Blanca is a beach resort and ferry port on the south coast of Lanzarote, some 50 km southwest of the capital Arrecife. It's part of the municipality of Yaiza, but with a population of 12,960 in 2021 it has far outgrown that village.
Puerto del Carmen
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Puerto del Carmen is a large tourist resort on the south coast of Lanzarote, a few km west of Arrecife the capital and airport. It has long sandy beaches which are more sheltered than the exposed north and west-facing coasts.
Costa Teguise
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Costa Teguise is a beach resort on the east coast of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. It's about 7 km east of the capital Arrecife and 15 km from the island's airport.
Lanzarote
- Type: Island with 150,000 residents
- Description: one of the main islands of the Canary Islands, Spain
- Also known as: “Lanzarote Island”
- Location: Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lanzarote” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lanzarote”
- Arabic: “لانزاروت”
- Aragonese: “Lanzarote”
- Armenian: “Լանսարոտե”
- Asturian: “Lanzarote”
- Azerbaijani: “Lansarote”
- Basque: “Lanzarote”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Лансаротэ”
- Belarusian: “Лансаротэ”
- Belarusian: “Лянсаротэ”
- Breton: “Lanzarote”
- Bulgarian: “Лансароте”
- Catalan: “Lanzarote”
- Cebuano: “Lanzarote Island”
- Chinese: “兰萨罗特岛”
- Chinese: “蘭薩羅特島”
- Croatian: “Lanzarote”
- Czech: “Lanzarote”
- Danish: “Lanzarote”
- Dutch: “Lanzarote”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لانثاروتى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لانزاروتى”
- Esperanto: “Lanzarote”
- Esperanto: “Lanzaroto”
- Estonian: “Lanzarote”
- Finnish: “Lanzarote”
- French: “Île de Lanzarote”
- French: “Lancerotte”
- French: “Lanzarote”
- Galician: “Lanzarote”
- Georgian: “ლანსაროტე”
- German: “Lanzarote”
- Greek: “Λανθαρότε”
- Hebrew: “לנסרוטה”
- Hungarian: “Lanzarote”
- Icelandic: “Lanzarote”
- Inari Sami: “Lanzarote”
- Indonesian: “Lanzarote”
- Interlingue: “Lanzarote”
- Irish: “Lanzarote”
- Italian: “Lanzarote”
- Japanese: “ランサローテ島”
- Japanese: “ランサロテ島”
- Korean: “란사로테”
- Korean: “란사로테섬”
- Latin: “Insula Lanzarotta”
- Latin: “Lanzarote”
- Lithuanian: “Lansarotė”
- Luxembourgish: “Lanzarote”
- Macedonian: “Лансароте”
- Malay: “Lanzarote”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لانساروطي”
- Northern Frisian: “Lanzarote”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lanzarote”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lanzarote”
- Norwegian: “Lanzarote”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lanzarote”
- Persian: “لانزاروته”
- Polish: “Lanzarote”
- Portuguese: “Lançarote”
- Portuguese: “Lanzarote”
- Romanian: “Lanzarote”
- Russian: “La Geria”
- Russian: “Лансароте”
- Russian: “Лансаротте”
- Russian: “Ланцерот”
- Sardinian: “Lanzarote”
- Scots: “Lanzarote”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lanzarote”
- Serbian: “Ланзароте”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lanzarote”
- Slovenian: “Lanzarote”
- Spanish: “Isla de Lanzarote”
- Spanish: “Isla de los volcanes”
- Spanish: “Lanzarote”
- Spanish: “Tyterogakaet”
- Swedish: “Lanzarote”
- Thai: “เกาะลันซาโรเต”
- Turkish: “Lanzarote”
- Ukrainian: “Лансароте”
- Vietnamese: “Lanzarote”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lanzarote”
- Welsh: “Lanzarote”
- Western Mari: “Лансароте”
- Wu Chinese: “兰萨罗特岛”
- Yue Chinese: “蘭薩羅特島”
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