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1. Bahía de Timijiraque
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2. Playa de las Calcosas
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3. Playa Verodal
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4. Playa de las Almorranas
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5. Las Playas
The Las Playas Natural Monument is a protected landscape located southwest of the island of El Hierro (Canary Islands, Spain) that is part of the Canary Network of Natural Protected Areas and the Natura 2000 Network. It belongs to the municipalities of Valverde and Frontera . It limits to the southwest with the rural park of Border.
It is a large semicircular escarpment, with a diameter of about six kilometers, which reaches a maximum altitude of 1,075 meters above sea level in the Risco de Los Herreños. This escarpment delimits an interior depression by the north, the west and the south, being open towards the sea in its east-southeast quadrant.
This space was declared by Law 12/1987, of June 19, of the Declaration of Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands, as a natural place of national interest of Las Playas, and reclassified to its current category by Law 12/1994, of December 19 , of Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands.
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6. Playa de la Arena
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7. Playa de los Cardones
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8. Playa de Puerto de la Estaca
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The Port of La Estaca is the main port of the island of El Hierro (Canary Islands), Spain. It is the entrance way to the island by the sea, being the only port of the same where passenger ships dock. It is located in the municipality of Valverde. Despite functioning as a passenger port, it was initially a fishing refuge of few dimensions. Playa del Varadero.
Unlike the other islands, the capital of El Hierro, Valverde, is not at sea level, so the port of La Estaca is a coastal neighborhood that is more than 7 kilometers from the municipal center. Around the port a small population nucleus was generated, which in 1991 had 140 inhabitants and in 2007 with 125 inhabitants.
Your password is that of the maritime province of Tenerife to which it belongs.

Since March 2014, the Alboran catamaran ferry, which carries out the line "Los Cristianos (south of Tenerife) - Puerto de la Estaca", arrives at Puerto de la Estaca. This fast vessel is operated by the company Naviera Armas. It was built in Tasmania, Australia, in 1999, by Incat (building number 052). Since 2001 it is owned by Acciona Trasmediterránea, and in 2014 it is chartered by Naviera Armas. It has capacity for almost 900 people. Its port of registration was Algeciras, but since 2014 it is Santa Cruz de Tenerife.