{"id":7086,"date":"2024-06-21T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islanddomains.earth\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2024-06-21T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T00:58:18","slug":"ic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islanddomains.earth\/en\/ic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to the Canary Islands to See a Mummy with Fluffy Hair and a Parrot Sanctuary Turned into “The World’s Best Zoo”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Canary Islands are known as the “Hawaii of the Atlantic” due to their year-round warm climate. They are a popular resort destination with about 10 million visitors a year, mainly from Europe. The Canary Islands are an archipelago of seven islands belonging to Spain. Tenerife, the island we visited, is the largest and has the “World’s Best Zoo” as well as the “Museum of Nature and Man”, where mummies of the indigenous Guanche people are on display. The ccTLD (Country Code Top Level Domain) assigned to the Canary Islands is “.ic”.<\/p>\n

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\u25c6Where are the Canary Islands?<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Canary Islands are northwest of the African continent, off the coast of Morocco and the Western Sahara. The closest island to the mainland is Fuerteventura in the east, about 100 km from the continent. The islands are about 1,000 km from Spain. The seven islands are scattered in the Atlantic Ocean and have volcanic topography, with the newer islands being higher in elevation. The total area of all the islands together is about 7,270 \u33a2. Population wise, there are about 2.2 million people living in the Canary Islands (as of 2021), and the official language is Spanish. The currency in use is the Euro.<\/p>\n

* As of January 2024<\/p>\n