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Lanzarote 1 Luc Viatour
Papagayo Beach, Lanzarote , Canary Islands , Spain. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Papagayo Beach, Lanzarote , Canary Islands , Spain
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
El Quemao
How work, access and surfing shaped El Quemao.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
Lanzarote (UK: , US: , Spanish: , locally ) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands, 125 kilometres (80 miles) off the north coast of Africa and 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) from the Iberian Peninsula.
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1402
Work at the water’s edge
At the southern end of the Yaiza municipality, the first European settlement in the Canary Islands appeared in 1402 in the area known as El Rubicón, where the conquest of the Archipelago began.
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2018
The shore becomes reachable
Lanzarote is part of the province of Las Palmas, and is divided into seven municipalities: The island's main point of entry is César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport which, in 2018, handled 7327019 passengers.
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Aerial view of the surfing beach Playa del Viejo Reyes on Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
Aerial view of the surfing beach Playa del Viejo Reyes on Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Aerial view of the surfing beach Playa del Viejo Reyes on Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
ORGANISED SPORT
Surfing reads the same coast differently
El Quemao is part of PeakWave's surfing catalogue.
The local record used here does not support a single founding date for the sport, so the exhibition treats its sporting identity as an accumulation of use, access and organisation.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
El Quemao is recorded at 29.208° N, 13.705° 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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Lanzarote 1 Luc Viatour
Papagayo Beach, Lanzarote , Canary Islands , Spain. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Papagayo Beach, Lanzarote , Canary Islands , Spain
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
TODAY
El Quemao now
Located in the centre-west of the island is Timanfaya National Park, one of its main attractions.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
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
Lanzarote 1 Luc Viatour
AOD.EU.EL-QUEMAO.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Aerial view of the surfing beach Playa del Viejo Reyes on Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
AOD.EU.EL-QUEMAO.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Lanzarote overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.