Gran Canaria, the island which gives the Canary archipelago its name, is the third largest island after Tenerife and Fuerteventura. It is a small continent of its own. Hardly anywhere else you can find such different landscapes and climatical zones within a place of a less than 2000 square kilometers: mountain ranges, desert land and sand dunes, tropical forrests, white sand beaches, high cliffs, ....
If you are planning to visit the island you may be interested in having a quick look at several photos of Gran Canaria. Click on the links below to view the pictures. We have taken any attempt to provide exact (GPS-based) coordinates of the positions where the photos have been taken.
Here you see the island of Gran Canaria from space. Image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
