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Key facts
- Country
- Spain
- Autonomous region
- Canary Islands
- Province
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- Island
- Tenerife
- Total
- 24.23 km (9.36 sq mi)
- Density
- 197.0/km (510.2/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+0 ( GMT )
- Climate
- BSh
- Website
- www.lossilos.es
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Official name
- Silos, Los
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Tenerife
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 4773
- Area
- 24.23
- Elevation
- 105
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Shares border with
- Garachico
- Official website
- www.lossilos.es
- Image
- Nuestra Senora de La Luz.png
- Licence plate code
- TF
Show 5 more facts
- postal code
- 38470
- Commons category
- Los Silos
- male population
- 2348
- female population
- 2345
- P8168
- Paul Boehm
via Wikidata · CC0
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Los Silos is a municipality and town in the northwestern part of the island Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. It is located on the north coast, 57 km West of the capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Its name first appears in 1509, when the agricultural activity of the region made necessary the construction of silos to store cereals. The town located at the heart of the Teno Massif, contains an extremely valuable and interesting wealth of plant and animal life. The leafy laurisilva woodlands are in stark contrast with the plains on the coast, which still hold small areas of cardones and tabaibas, furrowed by steep-sided ravines which are routes bringing together the highlands and the coast.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Los Silos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.