Annex: Municipalities of the Canary Islands

Situation of the Canary Islands regarding the Iberian Peninsula

Canarias is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain and is divided into 88 municipalities, in accordance with the territorial organization included in article 137 of the Spanish Constitution of 1978:

The State is organized territorially in municipalities, provinces and autonomous communities. All these entities enjoy autonomy in the management of their respective interests.

Spanish Constitution of 1978, Title VIII, Article 137.

Escudo de Canarias

These municipalities are distributed as follows: fifty-four belong to the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and thirty-four to Las Palmas. The figure of the municipality is defined in the Law Regulating the Bases of the Local Regime as “the basic local entity of the territorial organization of the state”, with “legal personality and full capacity for compliance of its purposes" and its elements are "the territory, the population and the organization".

The administration and government of the municipality is carried out through a collegiate body called the city council or mayor's office, headed by a one-person institution: the mayor. In general, municipalities have several locations, one of which is the municipal seat, which usually houses the town hall. Some municipalities have the name of one of their localities —whether it is their municipal seat or not— and others do not share a name with any of them. There may also be other infra-municipal government bodies that enjoy a certain degree of management autonomy. These are the so-called minor local entities, which correspond to villages, parishes or districts, whose legal representation resides in their neighborhood council. Each entity has a municipality code made up of five or six numbers; the first two correspond to the code of the province, the next three to that of the municipality within it and the last one is a control digit to detect errors.

In 2019, the most populous municipality in the Canary Islands is Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in Gran Canaria, with 379,925 inhabitants (which is also the most densely populated with 3,778.47 inhab/km²) and the least populated is Betancuria, on the island of Fuerteventura, with 758 inhabitants and, in turn, is the one with the lowest population density, with 7.31 inhabitants/km².

The last municipality created was the municipality of El Pinar de El Hierro, in 2007. The last municipality to disappear was that of San Lorenzo, in 1939. The Canarian municipalities are integrated into the FECAM (Canarian Federation of Municipalities), which It is the group that watches over, defends, protects and promotes their common interests. In turn, this group belongs to the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces.

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List of municipalities

Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Municipality	Flag	Shield	Population (2022)	Surface (km2)	Population density (hab/km2)	Map
Adeje			49 270	105.95	465.03
Agulo			1085	25,39	42,77
Alajeró			2029	49,42	39,54
Arafo			5623	34,27	164,08
Arico			8754	178,76	52,89
Arona			82 982	81.79	1014.57
Barlovento			1897	43,55	43,56
Breña Alta			7199	30.82	233,58
Breña Baja			5885	14,20	414.44
Buenavista del Norte			4753	67.42	70.5
Candelaria			28 485	49.18	579.2
Fasnia			2849	45.11	63.16
La Frontera			4329	80.12	49,71
Fuencaliente de La Palma			1800	56.42	31.9
Garachico			4920	29,28	168,03
Garafía			1830	103.00	17.77
Granadilla de Abona			52 447	162.45	322.85
The Guancha			5561	23,78	233,85
Isora Guide			21 711	143.43	151.37
Güímar			21 224	102.39	207,29
Hermigua			1795	39.67	48,37
Icod de los Vinos			23 496	95.91	244,98
The Plains of Aridane			20 551	35,79	574,21
The Matanza de Acentejo			9054	14,11	641.67
The Orotava			42 434	207,31	204,69
The Pass			7901	135.92	58.13
The Pain of The Iron			1971	84.95	20,91
Port of the Cross			30 349	8,73	3476.4
Puntagorda			2293	31.10	73.73
Puntallana			2547	35.10	72.56
The Realejos			37 076	57.09	649.43
The Rosary			17 750	39,43	450.16
San Andrés y Sauces			4170	42,75	97.54
San Cristobal de La Laguna			157 815	102.06	1546.3
San Juan de la Rambla			4864	20,66	235,43
San Miguel de Abona			21 915	42,04	521,29
San Sebastian de la Gomera			9342	113.59	82.24
Santa Cruz de La Palma			15 361	43,38	354,1
Santa Cruz de Tenerife			208 688	150.56	1386.08
Holy Ursula			15 361	22,59	669,06
Santiago del Teide			11 161	52,21	213,79
The Sauzal			9005	18,31	491.81
The Silos			4644	24,23	191.66
Tacoronte			24 592	30.09	817.28
The Tank			2813	23,65	118.94
Tazacorte			4502	11,37	373,92
Tegueste			11 359	26,41	430.1
Tijarafe			2598	53,76	48,33
Great King			4674	32,36	129.2
Vallehermoso			2873	109,32	31,26
Valverde	No flag		5123	103.65	47,47
The Victory of Acentejo			9170	18,36	499.46
Vilaflor de Chasna			1767	56.26	31,41
Villa de Mazo			4905	71.17	68.92

Province of Las Palmas

Municipality	Flag	Shield	Population (2022)	Surface (km2)	Population density (above/km2)	Map
Agaete			5633	45.5	123.8
Agüimes			32 067	79.28	404,48
The Village of Saint Nicholas			7536	123,58	60.98
Antigua			12 940	250.57	51,64
Arrecife	No flag		63 750	22,72	2805.9
Artenara			1030	66.7	15,44
Arucas			38 369	33,01	1162,34
Betancuria			789	103.64	7.61
Firgas			7581	15,77	480,72
Gáldar			24 567	61,59	398.78
I would.			5382	16,59	50.49
Ingenio			31 932	38,14	837.01
Moya			7870	31,86	246,94
Mogan			20 331	172.43	117.9
The Olive			27 945	356,13	78.47
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria			378 797	100.55	3767.25
Bird	No flag		20 751	383,51	54,11
Puerto del Rosario			42 024	289,95	144.94
San Bartolomé	No flag		18 989	40,89	464,39
San Bartolomé de Tirajana			52 936	333.13	158.9
Santa Brígida			18 341	23,80	770.31
Saint Lucia of Tirajana			74 560	61,55	1211.18
Santa María de Guía de Gran Canaria			13 838	42,58	324.91
Teguise			23 411	263,98	89.01
Tired			1813	103.29	17,55
Telde			102 472	102.42	1000,41
Teror			12 667	25,70	492,88
Tías			21 083	64.61	326.31
Tinajo			6573	135.38	48,59
Tuineje			15 572	275,93	56.43
Valleseco			3750	22,11	169,61
Valsequillo de Gran Canaria			9490	39.15	242,4
Vega de San Mateo			7682	37,89	202,74
Yaiza			16 924	211,84	79.89