What is "tenerife"

Tenerife (; ) is the largest and most populated island of the seven Canary Islands; it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of and 898,680 inhabitants, 43 percent of the total population of the Canary Islands. Tenerife is also the largest and most populous island of Macaronesia.

About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the most of any of the Canary Islands. It is also one of the most important tourist destinations in Spain and the world. Tenerife hosts one of the world's largest carnivals and the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is attempting to become a World Heritage Site. Tenerife is served by two airports, Tenerife North Airport and Tenerife South Airport, and is the tourism and economic centre of the archipelago.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital of the island and the seat of the island council (cabildo insular). The city is capital of the autonomous community of Canary Islands (shared with Las Palmas), sharing governmental institutions such as Presidency and ministries. Between the 1833 territorial division of Spain and 1927 Santa Cruz de Tenerife was the sole capital of the Canary Islands, until a decree ordered that the capital of the Canary Islands be shared, as it remains at present.

The island is home to the University of La Laguna, which was founded in 1792 and is the oldest university in the Canaries. San Cristóbal de La Laguna (a World Heritage Site) is the second city of the island and the third one of the archipelago. The city of La Laguna was also capital of the Canary Islands until Santa Cruz replaced it in 1833.

In the Teide National Park (World Heritage Site), in the center of the island, is the highest elevation of Spain as well as the highest of the islands of the Atlantic Ocean, and the third largest volcano in the world from its base, Teide. Also located on the island Macizo de Anaga since 2015 is Biosphere Reserve and is the place that has the largest number of endemic species in Europe. The island's capital contains the architectural symbol of the Canary Islands, the modern Auditorio de Tenerife.

Tenerife may refer to:

• Tenerife, an island of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
• Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the capital (jointly with Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) of the Canary Islands, the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the island of Tenerife, in Spain.
• Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife a province of the autonomous community of Canary Islands.
• Tenerife Airport (disambiguation).
• Tenerife Baloncesto, a professional Basketball team based in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
• CD Tenerife, a Spanish football club based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands.
• CV Tenerife was a Spanish volleyball club who played their home matches at the Pabellón Insular Santiago Martín hall in Tenerife.

• Mount Teneriffe (Washington), known hiking area in the United States.

• Pic a Tenerife, it is Gros Morne National Park in Canada.

• Tenerife, Magdalena, a town and municipality.

• Teneriffe, Queensland, an inner city suburb in Brisbane.
• Mount Teneriffe, granite formation in the state of Victoria in Australia.

• Cerro Tenerife (Chile), in the Chilean Patagonia, resembles the Teide.

• Pico de Tenerife (Barbados), mountains in northwest Barbados.

• San Carlos de Tenerife, city founded by Canarian families in the Dominican Republic.

• Cerro Tenerife (Venezuela), mountain State of Mérida to Venezuela.
• Quebrada Tenerife, hill located in Venezuela.

• Tenerife airport disaster.
• Cabildo Tenerife.
• Pic a Tenerife, a mountain in western Newfoundland.
• Montes Teneriffe, set of several isolated mountains of the moon emerging from the northern Mare Imbrium.
• (1399) Teneriffa, Asteroid number 1399 is located in the main belt.
• Tenerife Goldcrest.
• Tenerife Experiment.
• Bichon Tenerife, one of the original names of the breed of dog now called Bichon Frise.