The small continent is the name by which the nature is known then in her offers all class of landscapes, with an European vegetation, American and African. Most characteristic of its appearance they are the precipices, that flow from their central summits, to more than 2,000 meters of height, with its immense granite rocks, until the sea. There is no earth that presents/displays such diversity and resistance of landscapes like this island, that has desert zones next to mountains of tropical frondosidad; steep cliffs in front of extensive beaches of sand, and steep precipices in front of smooth valleys of plataneras.
An excursion by the island in car, makes an impression and surprises, when in few kilometers it changes so drastically of vegetation and until of climate. Specially in winter when the tourists are toasted at the same time to the sun in the beaches that the summits of mountains are snowed. Main the routes of communication of the island with the outside are the Port of the Light, located in the capital; the Port of Agaete, via of interinsular sea communications; and elAeropuerto of Great Canary, also call Airport of Gando or Airport of the Palms, located to about 18 km of the city in the Southeastern of the island, and very next to the city of Telde, one of the main population centers of the Island, next to the Capital.
The road network of the island is very dense and has like neuralgic point the city of the Palms, although the inner highways tend to organize themselves following the own orography of the island, by the main precipices until the central zone, as it made the road network to premoder to us. Between the main routes of communication it is possible to emphasize the system of freeway-railcars: the GC-1 is the main insular axis, communicates the Palms of Great Canary with the tourist zone of the South through the suroriental coast; the GC-2, that communicate the insular capital with Agaete vertebra the North slope, and the GC-3 or Circumvallation of the Palms of GC.
Aside from the capital, the main tourist centers of the island are Maspalomas (with an ecosystem of dunes, but whose conservasión is in danger because the own city-planning development prevents the regeneration of the same ones), Puerto Rico (created artificial beach in years 60), Port of Mogán and Meloneras (at the moment the zone of greater tourist expansion), etc. The tourism in the island of Great Canary is fundamentally a natural beach tourism, although other monuments as the Roque Nublo also attracts a great number of tourists.