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The Rio Grande, the river in whose valley the capital lies, has been called the Great River in English, maybe partly because Spanish Grande suggests English Grand , but in fact Rio Grande means simply Big River . Great River would be Gran Rio . (That tricky syntax again.)
The first foreign visitors to the Canaries are thought to have been Arab sailors who landed on Gran Canaria some 2,000 years ago and were met warmly.
This led, in 1927, to the islands being divided into two provinces; Santa Cruz de Tenerife with the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro; and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with the islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.
Carnaval is biggest and best in Santa Cruz and Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife and in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria, where it has all the razzmatazz of Rio’s Carnaval and the Mardi Gras of New Orleans.
Gran Karting Club, Maspalomas (on Gran Canaria).