President of the Government of the Canaries Arrives in Cuba
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- 02 / 15 / 2010
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Paulino Rivero Baute, arrived in Havana on Sunday night for an official visit at the invitation of the Cuban Government.
During his stay in the Caribbean island, the Spanish leader will hold meetings with local authorities from the Cuban State and Government, Granma newspaper reports.
The Canary Islands are an archipelago which forms one of the Spanish Autonomous Communities.
It is located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa. The islands highest to lowest are: Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro, Alegranza, La Graciosa and Montaña Clara.
It currently has a population of 2,098,593 inhabitants, making it the eighth most populous of Spain’s autonomous communities, with a density of 281.8 inhabitants per km².
Tenerife is its most populous island with approximately one million inhabitants;
the island of Gran Canaria is the second most-populous. The total area of the archipelago is 7447 km².
Source: ACN
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