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La Cueva de los Canarios above El Confital Beach, horizontal
a group of caves La Cueva de los Canarios above El Confital Beach, aboriginal dwellings. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- a group of caves La Cueva de los Canarios above El Confital Beach, aboriginal dwellings
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BEFORE MODERN SPORT
El Confital
How work, access and surfing shaped El Confital.
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Las Palmas , officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands in Spain.
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1483
Work at the water’s edge
Located in the square of the same name and founded in 1483, the old church was erected by the Garcia del Castillo family at the time of the town's foundation.
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ACCESS CHANGES
The shore becomes reachable
If built, the Tren de Gran Canaria (TGC) line would run along the eastern coast and connect Las Palmas with the airport and Maspalomas in the south.
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IX WQS Islas Canarias Ocean Earth Pro.
IX WQS Islas Canarias Ocean Earth Pro.. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- IX WQS Islas Canarias Ocean Earth Pro.
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- Open-licence photograph
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ORGANISED SPORT
Surfing reads the same coast differently
Each year, qualifying events for the professional world surfing championship take place on this beach.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
El Confital is recorded at 28.152° N, 15.449° W. A surf map fixes a name to one stretch of moving water, but the place changes with tide, swell direction, wind and the shape of the seabed.
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La Cueva de los Canarios above El Confital Beach, horizontal
a group of caves La Cueva de los Canarios above El Confital Beach, aboriginal dwellings. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- a group of caves La Cueva de los Canarios above El Confital Beach, aboriginal dwellings
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
TODAY
El Confital now
Advanced off the beach surfing replaces swimming as the major water activity on Playa del Confital.
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THE LEDGER
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This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
La Cueva de los Canarios above El Confital Beach, horizontal
AOD.EU.EL-CONFITAL.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
IX WQS Islas Canarias Ocean Earth Pro.
AOD.EU.EL-CONFITAL.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Las Palmas overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.