The Canary Islands located to the east of Morocco between the latitudes 27º 37' and 29º North 25' and between the lengths 13º 20' and 18º 10' in the North Atlantic, these premises are indispensable to understand micro climate that is originated as well depending on the geography of each island. The Islands are divided in two provinces the Palms to which belong the Islands of Great Canary, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote next to their respective small barren islands Wolves and the Graceful one; and Santa Cruz to whom they belong Tenerife, the Palm, the Gomera and the Iron. The distance of the most Eastern point from the islands to the African continent does not arrive at 100 km. The total extension of distributed the 7,541 islands is of km2 in seven islands and its total population is of 1,6 million inhabitants distributed mainly between the islands inhabitants of the capital. Of course it is necessary to add the floating population that mainly supports the islands that monopolize most of the tourism that visits the archipelago: Great Canary, Tenerife, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura by that order of importance. Numerous sea lanes and aerial unite the main ports and airports of the islands with the rest of the world, in special with the Spanish peninsular territory and Western Europe. The Canary Islands well are known to have an extraordinary climate and without a doubt his 20º C of annual average temperature credits it. In the coastal zones the variation of diurnal temperature is little although, that yes, in mountains you can below cero reach temperatures in some days of winter. In the Canary Islands the water is one of the factors conditioners of the life in the island. Its shortage causes that in the great cities it resorts to the desalination plants to make drinkable the water of the sea and to take advantage of the rest for the human consumption, agriculture, etc.

GASTRONOMY
The canary kitchen can be considered like most original and cosmopolitan of Spain, because next to plates of evident peninsular inspiration, it presents/displays prescriptions that very or could be considered Latin American or African, and next to it totally original and native solutions. Then their privileged climate, the wealth of fruits that its earth gives and the rich coasts with abundant fishing, presents/displays a succulent and light kitchen at the same time. The prescriptions that more famous have done it, by the genius of their simpleza are the wrinkled Popes, potatoes cooked with very salty water skin abundant, reason why its skin acquires the effect to which the name alludes. They use with gravy, sharp sauce with oil, garlic, guindilla and pimentón. Something so simple that it has reached the masters degree, and on which many keep some more particular prescriptions jealously. It is taken accompanying other single plates or. In fact gravies there are many, considered as sauces you cold, and used in other stews, like the dirty gravy, that is a pig stew that uses this sauce. The fishing wealth, that naturally can be tasted in the most varied forms of the international kitchen, also offers native prescriptions, like the small boilers of fish, to which the island and the canary Sancocho are attributed to him to diverse names according to, that salty fish in a gravy sauce uses. The canary tradition account also with numerous vegetable stews, like chick-peas and judias, being the most famous potaje of berros.Otra prescribes native canary is gofio, a bread species with wheat flour, maize or barley, previously toasted, that accompany some plates in substitution by the bread. Guanche seems to be a very old prescription of origin (the original settlers of the islands). With this original sweet blood sausages with grapes are elaborated you pass and almonds. Between his delicious cheeses they emphasize those of Iron, and Fuerteventura or the smokings of the Palm and the one of Flower of Guide, of Great Canary. Their fantastic exotic fruits conform numerous delicious desserts naturally, as it is the case of the banana, abundant in the island, that is of an exquisite flavor. The canaries defend that the banana that is consumed in the rest of Europe, it does not taste of the one of the islands, and take reason, because this taken and consumed mature fruit fresher tastes so intense and delicious that he is incomparable. Between his prescriptions they emphasize those of fried bananas. The canary wines have old tradition, already Shakespeare named them in their Literature. They emphasize among them delicious and artisan the Malvasía, of Lanzarote, the red ones of Taraconte in Tenerife, those of Iron and those of the Palm. Not being able to forget original the rum and rum-honey, distilled delicious. MUSEUMS the Canary Museum is a private institution founded on the Palms of Great Canary and that vió the light the 2 of September of 1879, after a meeting maintained by personalities of the canary society at the moment. In this meeting, held in the house of Amaranth Martinez of Field of broom and Luján, they occurred to appointment Don Gregorio Chil and Naranjo, Don Víctor Grau Bassas, Don Diego Ripoche, Don Juan Padilla, Don Navarrese Andrés Torrents, Don Mariano Sanchez and Don Emilio Alvarez. From a beginning they knew clearly the founders: it was necessary to create a center that gathered history of the Canary islands, in special the one of Great Canary, for which they carried out all its efforts in the creation of an anthropology museum that opened the form of life of the old settlers of the islands, a place in which art objects were exposed to the public as well as a library in which all the works of old and modern Literature met and conserved.

MUSEUMS OF GREAT CANARY
Canary Museum House Museum of Columbus House Museum Leon and Castillo House Benito Museum perez Galdós Atlantic Center of Art modern Elder Museum of Science and the Technology Center of Art Runs Néstor Museum BOTANICAL GARDEN SAW and CLAVIJO SCIENTIFIC UNIVERSITIES and INSTITUTES University of the Palms of Great Canary remote University (associated Center of the Palms of Great Canary) Institute Astrophisicist of the Canary Islands Canary Institute of Marine Sciences


LABORATORIOS/CENTROS OF INVESTIGATION ING.
(Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes) - CERN - European Laboratory of Particle Physics - CIEMAT - Environmental and Technological Power Research center Product Institute Naturales and Agrobiología (CÍCICAN) Scientific Circle of The Canary Islands