The North Travel Information and Travel Guide - Canary Islands

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Introducing The North

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As on most of the islands, Gran Canaria’s fertile north presents a gently shifting picture from its rugged, mountainous interior and the southern beach resorts and dunes. Dramatic ravines, intensively tilled fields and terraces and forests of pine trees covered with mossy lichen typify the landscape as you wind along twisting roads and past myriad villages and hamlets. Only as you reach the west does the green give way to a more austere, although no less captivating, landscape: the west coast is the most dramatic on the island.