Example sentences for: hierro

How can you use “hierro” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Not surprisingly his crew took this as an ill omen, but as history tells us, once past El Hierro they did not drop off the edge of the world after all.

  • The Canary Islands Parliament has 60 members distributed equally between the two provinces; with Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro having 15, 8, 4 and 3 respectively, and Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura having 15, 8 and 7 respectively.

  • 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.

  • In the southwest corner of the archipelago El Hierro was, at one time, considered to be the end of the known world and for that reason it was used as the zero meridian, which has long since relocated to Greenwich.

  • However, such developments are mostly the exception and whole swathes of even the more developed islands are virtually untouched, while La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro are only now starting to provide even the most basic tourist facilities.


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