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Tenerife (; ) is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands; it is also the most populated island of Spain,〔 with a land area of and 898,680 inhabitants,〔(Cifras de población referidas al 01/01/2011 Real Decreto 1612/2011, de 7 de diciembre ), Instituto Nacional de Estadística〕 43 percent of the total population of the Canary Islands.〔 Tenerife is also the largest and most populous island of Macaronesia. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the most of any of the Canary Islands. It is also one of the most important tourist destinations in Spain.〔(Posicionamiento turístico de Tenerife )〕 Tenerife hosts one of the world's largest carnivals and the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is attempting to become a World Heritage Site.〔()〕 Tenerife is served by two airports, Tenerife North Airport and Tenerife South Airport, and is the tourism and economic centre of the archipelago.〔(Ricardo Melchior: "Tenerife es el motor de la economía canaria" )〕〔(Datos corporativos de CajaCanarias )〕 Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital of the island and the seat of the island council (''cabildo insular''). The city is capital of the autonomous community of Canary Islands (shared with Las Palmas), sharing governmental institutions such as Presidency and ministries. Between the 1833 territorial division of Spain and 1927 Santa Cruz de Tenerife was the sole capital of the Canary Islands, until a decree ordered that the capital of the Canary Islands be shared, as it remains at present.〔(''Real Decreto de 30 de noviembre de 1833'' ) en wikisource〕〔(''Real Decreto de 30 de noviembre de 1833'' ) en el sitio web oficial del Gobierno de Canarias〕 The island is home to the University of La Laguna, which was founded in 1792 and is the oldest university in the Canaries. San Cristóbal de La Laguna (a World Heritage Site) is the second city of the island and the third one of the archipelago. The city of La Laguna was also capital of the Canary Islands until Santa Cruz replaced it in 1833. Tenerife also has the highest elevation of Spain, a World Heritage Site that is the third largest volcano in the world from its base, El Teide.〔(Parque nacional del Teide: web oficial de Turismo de Tenerife )〕 Also located on the island Macizo de Anaga since 2015 is Biosphere Reserve〔(El macizo de Anaga alberga mayor concentración de endemismos de toda Europa )〕 and is the place that has the largest number of endemic species in Europe.〔 The island's capital contains the architectural symbol of the Canary Islands, the modern Auditorio de Tenerife.〔(Auditorio Tenerife, información )〕〔(Correos emite seis sellos con obras emblemáticas de la arquitectura española e incluye el Auditorio de Tenerife )〕 ==Toponymy== The island's former inhabitants, the Guanches, referred to the island as ''Achinet'' or ''Chenet'' (variant spellings are found in the literature). According to Pliny the Younger, Berber king Juba II sent an expedition to the Canary Islands and Madeira and gave the Canary Islands its name because he found particularly ferocious dogs (''canaria'') on the island.〔O'Brien, Sally and Sarah Andrews. (2004) ''Lonely Planet Canary Islands'' "Lonely Planet". p. 59. ISBN 1-74059-374-X.〕 Juba II and Ancient Romans referred to Tenerife as ''Nivaria'', derived from the Latin word ''nix'' (nsg.; gsg. ''nivis'', npl. ''nives''), meaning snow, in clear reference to the snow-covered peak of the Teide volcano.〔Charles Knight, ''The English Cyclopaedia'', 1866, Bradbury, Evans〕 On the other hand, maps dating to the 14th and 15th century, from authors like Bontier and Le Verrier refer to the island as ''Isla del Infierno'', literally meaning "Island of Hell", a reference to the volcanic activity and eruptions of Mount Teide. Finally, Teide is also responsible for the name of the island widely used today, named by the Benahoaritas (natives of La Palma) with a derivation from the words ''tene'' ("mountain") and ''ife'' ("white"). Later, after colonisation, the Hispanisation of the name resulted in the adding of a letter "r" uniting both words to obtain the name Tenerife as a result. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tenerife」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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