Le Bandama est un volcan d'Espagne situé aux îles Canaries. Il est constitué d'un sommet culminant à 574 mètres d'altitude, le Pico de Bandama, au nord, et d'une caldeira possédant un diamètre d'environ 1 000 m et une profondeur d'environ 200 m, au sud. Elle serait âgée d'environ 2 000 ans.
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The Bandama Natural Monument is part of the Tafira Protected Landscape on the island of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, Spain. It is considered a point of geological interest, because of the Caldera de Bandama. This volcanic crater, which is geologically a maar rather than a caldera, reaches 569 m above sea level at the highest point on its rim, Pico de Bandama, and is about 1,000 m wide and 200 m deep. The crater was developed during the last heavy eruptions 2000 years ago. It is recorded as the most recent volcanic activity on Gran Canaria.
The bottom of the caldera contains volcanic ash of different colors, and some botanic species of Canary Islands origin. Inside the caldera can be found an endemic bush, Dama de Bandama, that grows nowhere else.
The Caldera de Bandama is located at the meeting point of three municipalities: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Brígida and Telde.
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The American School of Las Palmas is an American international school in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. It serves levels nursery through grade twelve.
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The British School of Gran Canaria is a British international school on Gran Canaria in Spain. It consists of two campuses: the Tafira School in Las Palmas and the South School in San Bartolomé de Tirajana. It serves levels infants through sixth form college.
It was founded in 1966.
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Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo is the full name of the botanical garden on Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands. "Jardín Botánico Canario" means "Botanical Garden of the Canaries", while the additional words "Viera y Clavijo" honor the pioneering Spanish cleric and scholar José Viera y Clavijo, who attempted to found a botanical garden in the Canary Islands in the late eighteenth century.
The Botanical Garden Viera y Clavijo is located in the northeast of Gran Canaria, in Tafira Alta, approximately 7 kilometers southwest of the capital city Las Palmas. Thus it is located inland from Las Palmas, a few kilometers away from Santa Brígida.
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Gran Canaria is a Spanish Denominación de Origen Protegida that covers the entire island of Gran Canaria comprising 21 municipalities. It obtained its official status in 2009.
The cultivation of the vine in Gran Canaria dates back to the end of the s. XV, when the first vines from Crete arrive. In the S. XVI, Canarian wines, due to their quality and prosperity, began to be exported to England, Flanders, Hamburg and the new world. Towards the middle of the century, wine in Gran Canaria played a fundamental role in the island's agricultural economy, becoming the main export product due to the decline in sugar cane cultivation. However, this privileged situation was soon damaged due to the international situation: that is, the war of succession to the Spanish crown. The English gave preference to Portuguese wines, thus definitively undermining the production and trade of Canarian wines practically until today.
Le nom du cratère proviendrait de Daniel Van Dame, un marchand hollandais qui y cultivait la vigne au XVIIe siècle.
