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Arona is a municipality in the south of the island of Tenerife with a great diversity of landscapes, ranging from mountain to coast. With its 13 kilometres of coastline, Arona opens onto the Atlantic from Costa del Silencio to Playa de las Américas. A varied coast of beaches of sand or stones (known locally as “callaos”), cliffs, rock pools and coves, that allow you to immerse yourself in a sea of sensations.
The Canaries current helps to maintain both the atmosphere and the sea in Arona at a pleasant temperature, allowing you to enjoy the sea all year round.
Places of interest
Guaza Mountain (Montaña de Guaza) is a protected natural space and an excellent example of an extrusive dome with outflow. A volcanic edifice of considerable proportions, formed by lava spillage from a very viscous (acid) magma preventing an extensive lava flow.
Roque de Jama Natural Monument, on the other hand, is an intrusive dome, a spout of phonolite formed under the surface which was later uncovered by erosion. It is the largest of the volcanic edifices of Tenerife and has interesting examples of botanical endemism.
From the Sentinel’s Watch (Mirador de La Centinela) one can obtain a wide view of the Valley of Saint Lorenzo and a whole sector of this part of the island.
The coastal sector still conserves spaces of notable interest, although unfortunately the urbanizing process has swallowed up the important salt flats of El Guincho.
The town of Arona has an extremely interesting and complex range of architecture. This includes many and varied examples of popular architecture, which constitute a major cultural reference point.
The parish church has “several images carved by popular religious image-makers, including a Virgin of the Conception by Francisco García Medina (1739) and a naïf Saint Joseph. The most venerated image is that of the Christ of Health (Cristo de la Salud) in the style of the Canary Islands’ school. The biggest altarpiece, made by local carpenters, was brought from the Convent of San Francisco, in Adeje.” (Cuscoy, El Libro de Tenerife [The Book of Tenerife], 1962).
Arona Central Park (Parque Central de Arona), inaugurated in 2004, is the biggest green space in the municipality, with a surface area of 4 hectares. Designed by a team of architects and biologists, it has a collection of tropical palm trees and a rocky area conserving the municipality’s endemic flora.
Sighting of Cetaceans
In the ocean waters off Arona there are 26 of the 80 existing species of cetaceans. It is the only place in Spain where both tropical and ocean-dwelling cetaceans, such as the shortfin pilot whale and the Atlantic spotted dolphin, can frequently be seen.
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