Telde, Las Palmas

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Telde is a Canarian municipality in the eastern portion of the island of Gran Canaria in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands and is the second largest municipality in population on the island. Telde is a suburb of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The population is 93,942 (ISTAC (http://www.gobiernodecanarias.org/istac/), 2003) and approaching the 100,000 mark in the mid-2000s from 2003, its density is 917.13/km² and the area is 102,43 km²/10,243 ha. It is located a main highway linking to the capital and has access with the superhighway GC1 linking the capital and the southern part of the island and the old highway. Telde is also linked with another highway to the northcentral municipalities of Gran Canaria. The main industry are businesses and tourism. Until the 1970s and the 1980s, agriculture was the dominant industry. The Atlantic Ocean is to the east, farmlands cover the central and the eastern part, the rest of the land are mountainous. The housing developments of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria came in the 1960s and expanded in the 1980s which result of loss of agricultural land which replaced by residential properties, industrial buildings and other buildings including hotels and an aiport for the whole island, the Gran Canaria International Airport located in the subdivision of Gando and is located between Telde and the capital and the island's touristic zone is to the south.

Contents

1 Geography 2 History and Information 3 Other 4 External links 5 See also

Geography

• Location:
  • Latitude: 28 (28°) N
  • Longitude: 15.41667 (15°25') W
• Altitude:
  • Lowest: Atlantic Ocean
  • Centre: 130 m
  • Highest: southwestern part m

History and Information

Telde used to be an agricultural community where sugar canes, vineyards, bananas and tomatoes were the main crops.

Telde was restored to a democratic city in 1979, the city's destiny has been governed by Aureliano Francisco Santiago Castellano, Marcelino Galindo and since 2003, Francisco Valido.

Other

Telde has schools, lyceums, gymnasia, churches, beaches, a post office, parks, sporting grounds and a squares (plaza).

External links

• Map and aerial photos
  • Street map from Mapquest (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=28&longitude=-15.41667&zoom=6). MapPoint (http://maps.msn.com/map.aspx?&lats1=28&lons1=-15.41667&alts1=35) or Google (http://maps.google.com/maps?||=28,-15.41667)
  • Google (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28,-15.41667&spn=0.11,0.18&t=k)
• Coordinates: 28° 2′ 0″ N 15° 30′ 0″ W (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=28_2_0_N_15_30_0_W_)

See also

• List of municipalities in Las Palmas

Northwest: Santa Brígida	North: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
West: Valsequillo	Telde	East: Atlantic Ocean
	South: Ingenio

Municipalities in Gran Canaria

Agaete | Agüimes | Artenara | Arucas | Firgas | Gáldar | Ingenio | Mogán | Moya | Las Palmas | San Bartolomé de Tirajana | San Nicolás de Tolentino | Sta. Brígida | Sta. Lucía de Tirajana | Santa María de Guía | Tejeda | Telde | Valleseco | Valsequillo | Vega de San Mateo

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