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Weekend Holiday Cottages in Puntagorda, La Palma, Canary Islands

Below are the rural houses belonging to Los Marantes. You can see a detailed description of each one as well as photos and the availability calendar clicking in the link "More details" placed below. Also you can make a reservation if you wish.

  • Rural House 1
    House 1 - Outside

    This house is placed at the beginning of the enter way to Los Marantes. It's a bungalow separated of the rest of the houses where you could enjoy of the better tranquility and peace. Rounded by nature and green zones, this house is ideal to take a rest and relax. It has its own terrace with hammocks and tables to sunbathe, also it has a particular barbecue.

    50,00€
    3 people
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  • Rural House 2
    House 2 - Outside

    The house 2 is in a set of three houses, placed at left side of a orchard of fruit tree. It has a wide terrace to sunbathe and relax. In front of the house is placed the common barbecue and a old tank of water, which aforetime kept saved the raining water. This house is very quiet and ideal to relax and disconnect from the daily grind.

    50,00€
    3 people
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  • Rural House 3
    House 3 - Outside

    The house 3 is in the middle of a set of three houses. Is the greater house because of it has 2 bedrooms, therefore it's ideal to large families that wish spend some days together. It's placed in front of a old tank of water and a common barbecue in which you could roast and cook only or in company of other clients.

    50,00€
    5 people
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  • Rural House 4
    House 4 - Outside

    The house 4 is placed at right side of a set of three houses, it has a beatiful views to La Palma's mountains, which is a green and nice place which will be a good memory for you. The house has 2 exits, one to the common barbecue and the parking and the other to the private route that belong to Los Marantes. Also it has a terrace with beautiful views to the mountains.

    50,00€
    3 people
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Volcanism

La Palma, like the rest of the Canary Islands, an island of volcanic origin. With a geological period estimated at 2 million years, is one of the youngest in the archipelago. It arose from a submarine volcano at 4,000 meters below sea level. The building of the volcanic island has an altitude of 6,500 m from the abyssal Atlantic platform, finding in it all kinds of volcanic rocks. La Palma is the third highest island in the world in relation to its area, only surpassed in this respect by Pico (Azores) and Fogo (Cape Verde).

The island is divided into two distinct climatic zones through a chain of volcanoes called Cumbre Vieja. In the south there are still active volcanoes. The last eruption occurred in 1971 at the southern tip of the island, in the municipality of Fuencaliente. In that eruption the volcano came Teneguía, which remains in the crosshairs of scientists to continue burning. The north is dominated by the Caldera, a submarine caldera created by eruptions and erosion, which grew to a height of 3,500 meters. This boiler is the largest crater in the world emerged. The interior of the boiler is emptied into the geological past by a rapid emission of lava through a gap opened near the present Taburiente balcony in what is today "El Barranco de las Angustias". Traces of this issue can be washed inside the boiler, as these tracks (gullies on the inner walls) are oriented toward the center of the crater and not outwards, as would have happened in a crater eruptions ( as in the Mount Saint Helens). The boiler is 9 km in diameter, 28 in circumference and 1,500 m deep. The only solution that presents itself is the ravine of Sorrows, a place which is only accessible on foot. It lives only two people responsible for water intakes. In 1954 he created the National Park Caldera.

It is surrounded by peaks between 1,700 and 2,400 m altitude, where is located the highest point in the island, the Roque de los Muchachos, with 2426 meters. This peak is the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos.

Vegetation

Because of their formation and location, La Palma presents unique landscapes. La Palma is also known by the nickname La Isla Bonita and La Isla Verde, because of the vegetation that covers it. The island not only receive water through precipitation, but also does so through the horizontal rain. The trade winds bring clouds laden with water up to the summits of the island, forming mists that vegetation, especially laurisilva, condenses, producing the phenomenon known as horizontal rain. An example of use of this in the plant, in the case of Canary Island pine, that have their needle-shaped leaves act as a filter capacitor and allow the precipitate haze on the foot of the tree.

The island is divided into different vegetation zones, from the lava fields to the laurel forests, passing through areas of pine forests, thermophilous vegetation, and coastal vegetation summit. Among the plants that grow on the island, 170 are endemic to the Canary Islands, the most features, the Drago, the Pine Islands and the Canary Palm. The vegetation can be divided into a series of more or less distinct floors, around both sides of the island, being generally drier in the east than the west, and likewise, also drier in the southern the north.

Aborigins

The early inhabitants of La Palma were "benahoaritas", "auaritas" or "awaras". At the time of the conquest, was divided into 12 cantons. The earliest texts date from the La Palma Middle Ages (XIV and XV). Although lacking specifics about it, it is estimated that the population at that time could range around 4,000. Aborigines lived mostly on grazing goats, sheep and pigs and harvested the fruits and roots they developed a kind of flour they called "gofio", made from fern roots and amagantes that roasted and ground.

It is believed that the origin of the aborigines of the island of Palma comes from some Berber tribes with notice to the northwest of Africa. It is not known if they came by choice or otherwise came through other Mediterranean civilizations such as (Roman or Phoenician). With regard to anthropometric characteristics, the remains found in the deposits show that the average height was 1.70 meters for men and 1.65 meters for women. Many historians have made note the warlike character of the aborigines. These were frequently civil wars and all kinds of clashes that are not restricted to one county but often affecting the whole island. An example of strong confrontation was between Atogamtoma (Lord of Tijarafe) with Tanausú (steel) or Mayantigo (Aridane). A feature described by various authors is such that benahoritas describes women with great force and aggression.

Aboriginal palm also had a system of government that allowed primitive but no fights discuss many of the problems, this institution was the Tagoror. Also, within the community placed great importance on family and several members allowed to join into groups by the same bloodline. This union may be first order or nuclear (parents and children), or retrospective or extensive (a common ancestor).

It is believed that the people benahoritas had a history of about 2,000 years, until in 1493 Alonso Fernández de Lugo landed on the island with the firm intention to conquer it.

Parties

Each municipality of La Palma has its patron saint, having even independent parties in some neighborhoods, as is the case Argual in the municipality of Los Llanos. In addition, every five years takes place Bajada de la Virgen de Las Nieves from her sanctuary to the capital of the island. During these celebrations, part of the festivities that accompany the patron to Santa Cruz and vice versa, are representations of the conquest of the island, Guanche rituals simulations and the Dance of the Dwarfs, the best-known festival of the island, dwarfs which nineteenth-century costumes parade through the streets of the capital practicing a dance feature. The other important representation is the dance the minuet, which mimics a nineteenth-century dance. Folklore of La Palma is similar to the rest of the Canaries, with the exception of dance sirinoque who hails from the island.

Carnival is one of the most celebrated festivals. Despite having all the characteristic features of the Canarian carnival (carnival queen, parades, street bands and so on.) Carnival of La Palma holding out for the Indians. The festival, which takes place on Carnival Monday is a mockery of the Indians, that is, returned to La Palma in the Americas. For the occasion, everyone dresses in costumes, lace and pure white guayabera in the same way the wealthy returning emigrants. After a performance in which time a ship arrives at port full of Indians, with their parrots, maids (known as the black Tomasa) and other characteristic elements, begins a battle with powder by the capital's streets to the rhythm of Cuba.

It also has a long tradition of celebration of the Cross on May 3 in the villages of the region east of the island, which commemorates the founding of the double city of Santa Cruz de la Palma, which occurred on May 3 1492 and the Feast of the Cross, for which branching and wear jewels scattered throughout numerous crosses every town and neighborhood, and it is customary to visit the different crosses in the night before.