Maspalomas
Maspalomas is a tourist resort in the south of the island of Gran Canaria. In common usage the districts San Fernando, Sonnenland and Meloneras belong to Maspalomas. Nearby are Playa del Inglés and San Agustín.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: JUAN RAMON RODRIGUEZ SOSA, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 10 residents
- Description: City in Gran Canaria, Spain
- Postal codes: 35100, 35106, and 35109
Places of Interest
Highlights include Maspalomas Dunes and Maspalomas Lighthouse.
Maspalomas Dunes
Nature reserve
Photo: Discasto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Maspalomas Dunes are sand dunes located on the south coast of the island of Gran Canaria, Province of Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands. A 404-hectare area of the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, they have been protected as a nature reserve since 1987.
Maspalomas Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Wouterhagens, Public domain.
The Maspalomas Lighthouse is an active 19th century lighthouse at the southern end of the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, in the Canary archipelago. It lies at one end of the Maspalomas beach, 4 kilometres south of the resort town centre, next to the area known as the Maspalomas Dunes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Playa del Inglés and San Fernando de Maspalomas.
Playa del Inglés
Photo: Bengt Nyman, CC BY 3.0.
Playa del Inglés is a large tourist metropolis right next to Maspalomas, with beautiful dune beaches.
San Fernando de Maspalomas
Suburb
San Fernando is the northern quarter of Maspalomas in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Gran Canaria, and as well the name of the parish for all of Maspalomas.
Sonnenland
Suburb
Sonnenland is a district of San Bartolomé de Tirajana in the south of Gran Canaria, set on a hillside above Maspalomas and Playa del Inglés. Originally designed for expatriates, it is gradually becoming home to a growing number of Spanish residents, many of whom work in the surrounding tourist areas such as Arguineguín, Maspalomas, and Puerto Rico.
Maspalomas
- Categories: city, single entity of population, and locality
- Location: San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
27.7528° or 27° 45′ 10″ northLongitude
-15.5971° or 15° 35′ 50″ westPopulation
10Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)United Nations Location Code
ES MPAOpen location code
7CV6QC33+45OpenStreetMap ID
node 3702928482OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Maspalomas” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Maspalomas”
- Basque: “Maspalomas”
- Bulgarian: “Маспаломас”
- Catalan: “Maspalomas”
- Cebuano: “Maspalomas”
- Chinese: “馬斯帕洛馬斯”
- Chinese: “马斯帕洛马斯”
- Danish: “Maspalomas”
- Dutch: “Maspalomas”
- Esperanto: “Maspalomas”
- Finnish: “Maspalomas”
- French: “Maspalomas”
- Galician: “Maspalomas”
- German: “Maspalomas”
- Hebrew: “מספלומס”
- Italian: “Maspalomas”
- Japanese: “マスパロマス”
- Lithuanian: “Maspalomasas”
- Malagasy: “Maspalomas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Maspalomas”
- Norwegian: “Maspalomas”
- Polish: “Maspalomas”
- Russian: “Маспаломас”
- Samogitian: “Maspalomas”
- Slovenian: “Maspalomas”
- Spanish: “Maspalomas”
- Swedish: “Maspalomas”
- Ukrainian: “Маспаломас”
- Welsh: “Maspalomas”
- “Maspalomas”
- “Maspalomasos”
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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 “Maspalomas”. Photo: JUAN RAMON RODRIGUEZ SOSA, CC BY-SA 2.0.