La Palma is one of the smaller islands of the Canary Islands.
With 47 km in length and 29 km in his wide part but, it has a surface of 728 kilometers square.
La Palma is a high island. The mountains are very high in relation to the surface.
The Maximum elevation with 2426 ms are the Roque Los Muchachos on the level of the sea.
The coast this formed in its immense majority by cliffs, beaches of volcanic sands.
Numerous volcanic cones, lava taps and docks remember the volcanic origin to us of the island.
Its climate is subtropical, also called like the eternal spring,
the north and the northwest of La Palma counts on a very abundant,
South vegetation and the little west vegetation.
T he florística wealth calls the attention to but the causal observer. The ornamental beauty of many plants is united to the high scientific value of the endemic species.
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