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Tegueste
Sign in to saveTegueste is a town and a municipality of the northeastern part of the island of Tenerife in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife province, on the Canary Islands, Spain. It is surrounded by the municipality of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. The town Tegueste is located 4 km northwest of San Cristóbal de La Laguna and 11 km northwest of the island capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Tegueste became independent from San Cristóbal de La Laguna in the 17th century.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Tegueste
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
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- Tegueste (Tenerife).jpg
- Settlement.image_flag
- Tegueste Bandera.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Escudo de Tegueste.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Tenerife municipio Tegueste.svg
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- Municipal location in Tenerife
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- Spain Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife#Canary Islands#Spain with Canary Islands
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- Location in Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Canary Islands
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife
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- Island
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Tenerife
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- Imperial
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 26.41
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Official name
- Tegueste
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Tenerife
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 11490
- Area
- 26.41
- Elevation
- 390
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- San Cristóbal de La Laguna
- Official website
- www.tegueste.es
- Image
- Tegueste, en Santa Cruz de Tenerife (España).jpg
- Licence plate code
- TF
- Patron saint
- Mark the Evangelist
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- Commons category
- Tegueste
- postal code
- 38280
- male population
- 5561
- female population
- 5733
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Historical population
- See also
- References
Tegueste is a town and a municipality of the northeastern part of the island of Tenerife in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife province, on the Canary Islands, Spain. It is surrounded by the municipality of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. The town Tegueste is located 4 km northwest of San Cristóbal de La Laguna and 11 km northwest of the island capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Tegueste became independent from San Cristóbal de La Laguna in the 17th century.
Currently, it is thought that the place name Tegueste is related to Thagaste, a city in Algeria where Saint Augustine of Hippo was born and a center of Berber culture.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tegueste” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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