page_title: Las Palmas
section_title: Parks and squares
hierarchical_section_title: Las Palmas / Parks and squares
caption_attribution_description: Iglesia de San Juan Bautista. En estilo neogótico es conocida popularmente como la "Catedral de Arucas"
context_page_description: Las Palmas, officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a city and capital of Gran Canaria island, in the Canary Islands, on the Atlantic Ocean.
  It is the capital, the most populous city in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands, and the ninth-largest city in Spain with a population of 383,308 in 2010. It is also the fifth-most populous urban area in Spain and ninth- or tenth-most populous metropolitan area in Spain.
  Las Palmas is located in the northeastern part of the island of Gran Canaria, about 150 km off the Moroccan coast in the Atlantic Ocean. Las Palmas experiences a hot desert climate, offset by the local cooler Canary Current, with warm temperatures throughout the year. It has an average annual temperature of 21.2 °C. According to a study carried out by Thomas Whitmore, director of research on climatology at Syracuse University in the U.S., Las Palmas enjoys "the best climate in the world".
  The city was founded in 1478, and considered the de facto capital of the Canary Islands until the seventeenth century.
context_section_description: Avenida Marítima
  Avenida Mésa y López
  El Confital
  Fuente Luminosa
  Parque de la Mayordomía
  Parque de Santa Catalina
  Parque Doramas
  Parque Juan Pablo II
  Parque San Telmo
  Plaza de Canarias
  Plaza de España
  Plaza de La Feria
  Plaza de Las Ranas
  Plaza Santa Ana
  Triana
caption: Church of San Juan Bautista
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