San Andrés y Sauces

28°48′20″N 17°46′30″W / 28.80556°N 17.77500°W / 28.80556; -17.77500CountrySpainAutonomous communityCanary IslandsProvinceSanta Cruz de TenerifeIslandLa PalmaArea • Total42.75 km² (16.51 sq mi)Population • Total4,112 • Density96/km² (250/sq mi)

San Andrés y Sauces is a municipality on the island of La Palma, Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. It is situated in the northeastern part of the island. The population of the municipality is 4,473 (2013)^[3] and the area is 42.75 km².^[1] The elevation of the largest village Los Sauces is 250 m. Los Sauces is 14 km north of the island capital Santa Cruz de La Palma. The municipality takes its name from the villages Los Sauces (the seat of the municipality) and San Andrés, 1.5 km southeast of Los Sauces, at the coast.

Economy

The main crops are bananas and the root vegetable taro (Colocasia esculenta), locally called ñame. A minor crop is sugar cane, which serves for the only distillery in the land that manufactures Ron Aldea, a rum.

Points of interest

• The laurel forest of Los Tilos
• Traditional architecture, mainly in San Andrés
• Puerto Espíndola, a small fishing port
• Cuevas de los Murciélagos, volcanic caves that are home to several bat species. Interesting fossils were found in the 1980s.

Historical population

Year	Population
1991	5,392
1996	5,438
2001	5,351
2002	5,226
2003	5,102
2004	5,012
2013	4,473

Gallery

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  San Andrés
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  Los Tilos
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  Los Tilos
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  Barranco de la Fuente
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  El Puente de Los Tilos

See also

• List of municipalities in Santa Cruz de Tenerife

References