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Playa de las Americas

Now I don't know much about Tenerife, but there's no mention of Playa de las Americas...? — CuaHL 16:23, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pleased to see some commercial links have been removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.166.17.23 (talk) 18:29, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ill looking ot this but it is there but with spanish name, but im changing that soon — Preceding unsigned comment added by THORtenerife (talk • contribs) 17:50, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry Playa de las Americas is what in English would be called a dump. I know as I live in Tenerife away from the sex and drugs and booze of Las Americas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.156.178.15 (talk) 16:24, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Flag

Tenerife has the exact same flag as Scotland? TR_Wolf — Preceding undated comment added 19:57, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The colours are different, wangi 20:13, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

no flag is EXACTLY the same as they are THE SAME FLAG ie flag of ST,ANDREW ie the flag for scotland and tenerife is the flag of st.andrew — Preceding unsigned comment added by THORtenerife (talk • contribs) 17:43, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The flag is the same flag as that for Scotland - white diagonal cross on a blue background and is the flag of St Andrew the fisherman. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.156.178.15 (talk) 16:19, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

External links

I don't feel that the links you added are [1] appliciable. Please see WP:EL for more information. Iolakana|^T 13:11, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Population

An exact population is meaningless without a date. When was the population 838,877? BrianNicholls 16:23, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Santa Cruz de Tenerife Population

Tenerife is the island most filled with the Canary Isles: http://www.secret-tenerife.com/2006/11/canary-islands-population-growth-in.shtml —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.170.169.83 (talk) 11:22, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sister cities

The Sister cities section does not have any references to support it. It reads like a random collection of cities and countries. It may well be factual, but I could not find any supporting sources so far. Would the original author please support his/her assertions?, else the section will have to be removed. -- Alexf^(talk) 11:46, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Section removed. Unsourced at least since October and really much longer. Without sourcing it is OR. -- Alexf^(talk) 21:59, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tenerife is the island with more population of Canaries and of Spain

Tenerife is the island with more population of Canaries and of Spain, look at it in the page in Spanish: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achineche

He says: Tenerife, with 865.070 inhabitants, is the island most filled with Canaries and with Spain —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.152.178.189 (talk) 00:36, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Translation

A lot of this article is in Spanish. As it's in the English version of the wiki site, it should be translated Repner1 (talk) 23:17, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Santa Cruz is capital not co-capital

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is capital not the co-capital, to verify it look at it in the page in Spanish: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achineche — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.155.75.91 (talk) 16:07, 25 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry senors, but Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital. It used to be La Laguna but not for many years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.156.178.15 (talk) 16:20, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Too long

This article is currently about 120KB and should probably be split: Geography of Tenerife, etc. Xanthoxyl (talk) 08:44, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It will entail a lot of work cutting it down, so it should be split eventually to retain the full work once condensing is done. Nothing wrong with a full article. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:52, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Parliament of the Canary Islands

The Parliament of the Canary Islands since this is not shared in Santa Cruz. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.42.228.164 (talk) 23:45, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

metropolitan area

Spanish Wikipedia has again given me the reason, Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the largest metropolitan area, and the most populous Palmas. Even blocked the page so that you no longer handled, you can check yourself: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.35.207.199 (talk) 11:03, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Until the Wikipedia article in Spanish has been blocked and continues in the largest metropolitan area (in size, extent) is that of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rea_metropolitana_de_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife-La_Laguna

Please, I'm just giving a figure, no attempt to deceive anyone, nor your enemy, and e data provided more than sufficient, and in Spanish wikipedia gives me the reason. Be fair —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.36.123.174 (talk) 19:44, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No borren nada las referecias estan expuestas. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.148.10.83 (talk) 11:36, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

map showing Canary Islands

This article has maps of Tenerife itself, but really could do with a map showing where Tenerife is within the Canary Islands, and in relation to, say, Africa and Spain. Perhaps the map on the Canary Islands page would do, but I haven't got the know-how to place it in the main info box. Hogyn Lleol (talk) 14:49, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:10, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Hogyn Lleol (talk) 08:07, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Tenerifan" or "Tenerifian"?

Is there any authoritative definition of the adjectival form of "Tenerife"? Our article seems equally split between "Tenerifan" and "Tenerifian". Is one or the other form more preferred? —Steve Summit (talk) 15:57, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

First is Spanish and the other is English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.156.178.15 (talk) 16:22, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Both usages are attested, though in my observation "Tenerifan" appears more frequently in published sources. For the sake of consistency I've changed all instances of "Tenerifian" in the article to "Tenerifan". -- Picapica (talk) 00:17, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The first is not Spanish; the Spanish word is tinerfeño. -- Picapica (talk) 00:17, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Edificio Olympo

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NPOV language: Pirates

Going on about invasions by pirates is hardly written from a NPOV. 80.0.26.48 (talk) 00:48, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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2nd largest African island?

It seems that Tenerife is the second largest African island, after Madagascar. Can someone confirm this? PWNGWN (talk) 14:18, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Tenerife is the second largest African island (after Madagascar) with 2,034 km2. Third is Bioko with 2,017 km2, fourth is Gran Canaria with 1,560 km2. Subtropical-man (talk) 18:02, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It depends on whether you count Socotra as part of Africa. It belongs to Yemen, but it is closer to Africa than the Arabian peninsula. Linguistically it has ties to arabia (but so does Zanzibar and no one would deny that is an African island). The flora is a mix of african and asian. Geologically I think it is part of East Africa. If you include Socotra, it is much larger than Tenerife at 3796 km2. You may also see Mauritus listed as 2040 km2, but that is for the island nation of Mauritus which also includes Rodriguez island and a few other outlying islands. Mauritus the island is 1864 km2. It is possible parts of the Niger Delta might be considered islands from the inland point of bifurccation but it is hard to nail down exactly the size of thiese pieces as they are further bisected and much of it is mangrove anyway. Nice question. Aapold (talk) 17:30, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Prose

Allow me to share a note about the prose in this article with the hope that volunteers or other visitors (perhaps some of the regular British tourists in the Canaries) could take upon themselves to perform. It is not hard to notice that the article has been mostly translated from the Spanish, which is good and fine as a way to jump-start the English entry. But at this point, its prose should become anglicized. 71.63.91.85 (talk) 11:18, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Elevation of Vilaflor

This statement from the article: "Vilaflor is the municipality with the highest altitude in the Canaries (its capital is 1,400 miles (2,300 km) high).". This cannot be correct, as this would place it well outside the earth's atmosphere (which is abuot 17km). The miles were converted to km (roughly, would be about 2253 km). I suspect this was meant to be 1400m and someone somehow took that to be miles. Indeed going by the article page for Vilaflor, Santa Cruz de Tenerife this is indeed the case. So I am updating the article accordingly to 1400 meters (4593 feet). Aapold (talk) 17:32, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please add information about LIBRARIES, under culture or education headline.

ee1518 (talk) 17:07, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Media section focuses on English-language stations in a Spanish-language country

I added the Globalize template. The Medea section focuses on the two English-language radio stations even though it is a Spanish-language country and most of the radio stations use Spanish. Thisisnotatest (talk) 09:13, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sixth century BCE vs 200 BCE

Currently the History section opens:
The earliest known human settlement in the islands date to around 200 BCE, by Berbers known as the Guanches.[22] However, the Cave of the Guanches in the municipality of Icod de los Vinos in the north of Tenerife, has provided the oldest chronologies of the Canary Islands, with dates around the sixth century BCE.[23]
These claims are incompatible. I don't have enough knowledge to resolve which is true but it should be edited. Ordinary Person (talk) 12:15, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Why so many maps on first page of article?

Is it that important to show an altitude map and the other maps at the beginning of the article? Wouldn't that be of minor importance? How about some photos of the town and island instead? 2601:540:C402:3F20:5D2B:29C7:A8A3:7B72 (talk) 12:08, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone who can help me who added that IPC section BCE hyperlink?

Hello. Who added the IPC it and why? I wouldn’t check the edit history as it may be so long! You need to answer it! Was it an IP? Or a user? (either a resident of Tenerife itself or international resident) Also who hyperlinked BCE? 2.103.231.248 (talk) 20:36, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Demographics

any 'natives'? Guanches? 142.163.194.33 (talk) 11:33, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]