Playa de Santiago - Blue Award for Beach

The blue flag awarded to 35 Canary Islands beaches this summer. On La Gomera the beach of Playa de Santiago.

 Gomeraverde http://gomeraverde.es/index.php?news=27358 25/05/2011 15:30:00

35 beaches in the Canary Islands have been recognized with the distinctive "blue flag" award that are awarded each year by the Association of environmental education and the consumer council (ADEAC). Four new beaches on the island of Gran Canaria (Las Canteras, El Confital, Hoya del Pozo and Salinetas) they appear in the list of 2011 for the ADEAC, while in Tenerife the Beach Garden (Puerto de la Cruz), the relief (Los Realejos) and Leocadio Machado (Granadilla) lost their distinction.

There are two beaches that had the recognition during 2010 and that have not been renewed this summer,  which are those of La Laja (Las Palmas) and the Meloneras (San Bartolomé de Tirajana) in Gran Canaria.

Tenerife lost three beaches with the blue flag status,  Leocadio Machado (Granadilla), El Socorro (Los Realejos) and Playa Jardín (Puerto de la Cruz), while the award retained the beaches of El Médano, La Tejita, Las Vistas (Mesa del Mar), El Camisón, Troy and Santiago del Teide.

The island of La Gomera got its only blue flag which is the beach of Playa de Santiago, in the municipality of Alajero.

Another newly awarded blue flag was the beach of Las Playtas on Fuerteventura.  This island now becomes the second of the Canary Islands with more eight blue flags. Lanzarote and La Palma retained the same number of beaches with the blue flag, five and four respectively.