Vacations

Canary Islands

These islands are located just off the coast of the north-western portion of the African continent/mainland, nearest the political divide of Morocco and Western Sahara. They form the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.
Tenerife, with 865.070 inhabitants, is the island most filled with Canaries and with Spain. The island of Fuerteventura is the second largest in the archipelago and located about 60 km from the northwest mainland African coast.

The islands form the Macaronesia ecoregion with the Azores, Cape Verde, Madeira, and the Savage Isles. The archipelago consists of seven large and several smaller islands, all of which are volcanic in origin.The Teide volcano on Tenerife is the highest mountain in Spain, and the third largest volcano on Earth on a volcanic ocean island. All the islands except La Gomera have been active in the last million years; four of them (Lanzarote, Tenerife, La Palma and El Hierro) have historical records of eruptions since European discovery. The islands rise from Jurassic oceanic crust associated with the opening of the Atlantic. Underwater magmatism commenced during the Cretaceous, and reached the ocean's surface during the Miocene. The islands are considered as a distinct physiographic section of the Atlas Mountains province, which in turn is part of the larger African Alpine System division.

According to the position of the islands with respect to the NE trade winds, the climate can be mild and wet or very dry. Several native species form laurisilva forests.

Medellin

Medellín, officially the Municipio de Medellín (Spanish) or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia and is located in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northern regions of the Andes in South America.

Medellín has an area of 382 km². It has 16 comunas (districts), 5 townships and 271 barrios. The metropolitan area of Medellín lies within the Aburrá valley at an elevation of 1,538 meters and is bisected by the Medellín River (also called Porce), which flows northward. In Medellin is the Porce III Dam [. North of the valley are the towns of Bello, Copacabana, Girardota and Barbosa. To the south of the valley Itagüí, Envigado, Sabaneta, La Estrella and Caldas can be found.

The principal different between these places in the geographic ubication. First Medellin is a place where you can listen to music to remember love; here people are very happy and friendly. Food is an important thing, because is the way to celebrate something. In Medellin Doesn’t Sea like Canarias Island and you can’t ever see beach. Water is another factor, when you be near to the sea is more hotter than in a city.

References:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medellín