Fuencaliente
Fuencaliente is the southernmost of the 14 municipalities of the Canary Island of La Palma. She is self-employed since 1873.
Places in the municipality
The population numbers in parentheses are from the year 2007.
- Los Canarios ( 782 )
- Las Indias ( 659 )
- Los Quemados (255 )
- Las Caletas (188 )
- Fajana (42 )
- El Charco (38 )
Demographics
Administrative headquarters
The Los Canarios (also known as Fuencaliente ) 1837 administrative seat of the municipality and is situated at an altitude of about 700 meters above sea level. sea level. The San Antonio de Abad church dates from the 16th century.
The region
About 70 percent of the municipal area are protected. These include the southern branch of the Cumbre Vieja and the nature reserve Tamanca. There are extensive pine forests around the amusement park Fuente de Los Roques.
Punta de Fuencaliente
At the Southern Cape of La Palma, the Punta de Fuencaliente, are an old, no longer in operation and a new lighthouse (Faro).
The small fishing village next to the lighthouses and the attached restaurant, which was considered a well-known excursion destination, were demolished in late 2007.
Punta Malpique
Near the Punta de Fuencaliente is located west another, smaller cape Punta Malpique. In the sea south of the Cape in 1971 40 stone crosses were sunk, and thus construct a submerged memorial for the murdered in 1570 by Huguenot privateers missionary Blessed Inácio de Azevedo from the Jesuit Order and his 39 companions.
The place is now known as the diving area of the island, in which in which also the rare black corals still occur.
San Antonio Volcano
Translated, Fuencaliente hot spring. However, when the hot and sacred source of the city was spilled during the last eruption of the previously 657 meters high volcano San Antonio the year 1677/1678, named to the place in Los Canarios. Today, both names are used. The age of San Antonio is estimated to be only about 3,000 years. A small visitor center with exhibition rooms, find information about geological details. The rim can be walked in half, the other half is blocked for security reasons.
Volcano Teneguia
The 438 meters high and youngest volcano in the Canary Islands was established in 1971 during a three- week long outbreak. Several vents below the San Antonio united into one. Since the escaping lava flowed to the adjacent south coast and there cooled in the sea, the island of La Palma was slightly larger again.
Economy
Additional income through eco-tourism, wine-growing is an important source of income. Due to the fertile volcanic ash thrives in the community Fuencaliente a good island wine. Particularly noteworthy is the sweet, award-winning Malvasia. English brought these preferred wine over 300 years ago on the island. Today, the winery was established in 1945 as a cooperative produces nearly two million liters of wine per year. It has 200 members, which together manage about 800 hectares of vineyards.
Another industry of banana-growing in the plantations below the volcanoes.
In the Saline Fuencaliente, which is in operation since 1967, salt is produced even today. It is thus the last saline in the Canarian province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which is still in operation. However, the owner Fernando Villalba Hernández fights for economic survival. As early as 1995, UNESCO subsidized urgent renovation work, and in 2007 said the island government support for the development of saline to to export abroad can. There is already demand. In addition, there are plans to build a visitor center and a restaurant about salt and sea.