El paraiso
The CANARIES form an archipelago made up by seven main islands and 6 islets. The Islands are located in the Atlantic Ocean near the Tropic of Cancer, in front of the African coast of Western Sahara, between latitudes 27° 38' North (El Hierro's southernmost point) and 29° 24' North (Islet Alegranza's northernmost point), and between longitudes 13° 20' West (Islet Roque del Este's easternmost point) and 18° 9' West (El Hierro's westernmost point).Canarian latitude in subtropical zone is the same as this of Orlando, Tampa and Cape Kennedy (Florida- USA), Corpus Christi and San Antonio (Texas- USA), Chihuahua (Mexico), Midway (Pacific Ocean), Delhi (India) or Kuwait (Persian Gulf). The climate of the Canaries, however, is a very specific one due to their condition of oceanic islands.There are only 115 kilometers (70 miles) between the African coast of Western Sahara and the islands of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote - the most easterly of the Canaries. But the islands stretch in an East-West 500 Kms -about 300 miles- long arch. This is the distance, as the crow flies, between Huelva-Cartagena, La Coruña-San Sebastián, Brussels-Hamburg, Berlin-Warsaw, Milano-Zagreb, Pittsburgh-New York, San Diego-Phoenix, Mexico City-Colima, Caracas-Maracaibo... Therefore, the most westerly islands -El Hierro, La Gomera, La Palma- are located several hundreds of kilometers into the Atlantic.
