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Key facts
- Country
- Spain
- Autonomous community
- Canary Islands
- Province
- Las Palmas
- Mayor
- José Juan Cruz Saavedra ( PSOE )
- Total
- 64.61 km (24.95 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 200 m (660 ft)
- Density
- 334.5/km (866.4/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Tienses
- Time zone
- UTC±0 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+1 ( WEST )
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Tías is a town and a municipality in the southern part of the island of Lanzarote, province of Las Palmas, autonomous community of the Canary Islands, Spain. The town Tías is situated 4 km from the south coast and 10 km west of the island capital Arrecife.
Lanzarote's largest tourist resort, Puerto del Carmen, is entirely in the municipality of Tías, and was the location of the first hotels ever built on the island, [Hotel (Arrecife)|the Gran Hotel Arrecife], and the Fariones hotel, both opened in 1967. Other settlements in the municipality are Mácher, La Asomada, Conil, Masdache.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tías” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.