La Gomera

Hurakan Real Estate Agency invites you to go on a reconnaissance of the island, to know it better and enjoy it.

The landscapes from La Gomera usually surprises the traveller because of their contrast and variety.

Very few places in the world own such natural richness and sceneries that this volcanic island does.

La Gomera, due to its circular shape and because of the erosion is furrowed by deep ravines of incomparable beauty.

La Gomera is, after the island of El Hierro, the smallest of the Canaries, with a surface of 378 square kilometers, from which a 10 per cent is occupied by the National Park of Garajonay, declared as World Culture Heritage of Humanity by the Unesco due to the laurel forest belonging to the prehistoric times (Tertiary period) that can be found there. The island is ideal for practising outdoors activities due to its wonderful weather through all the year. The Garajonay peak (1.487 meters) allows the coexistence of diverse microclimates in the Island, which change fast from one place to another. It makes the island a real continent in miniature.

La Gomera seems to be made for the walker, the sea and nature lovers or for anyone who desires to get lost in its forests, its grandiose ravines and green valleys. It is also made for the ones who wants to discover a landscape sculpted by the sea, with deep cliffs, valleys full of palms, beautiful rows of houses and spaces for the cultivation that have to be reached through walking by intrincated paths, created by the hardworking inhabitants of La Gomera.

This magic island, as the place is well known, possesses abrupt but serene nature, wild but peaceful at the same time, full of nice surprises for the visitors since La Gomera has escaped from the urbanism plans up to a point in which it is almost a virgin island.

The good temperatures that the island enjoys all the time favour activities such as rural tourism, foot path (hiking) and the practice of sea sports (diving, fishing) in its many clean beaches with no masses of people.

The SILBO (whistling) is the language with which the inhabitants of the rural parts of La Gomera have overcome the distances among the mountains.

Harbour of San Sebastián

These beauty and well being conditions have given place to the creation of settlements, both for residence and for tourism with a great respect towards the environment in most of the cases, where some europeans already enjoy this paradise.

The island is also known as Colombina because it was the last land on which Christopher Columbus stood before he left on his voyage leading to the discovery of America, the New Wold, in 1492.

The capital of the island has got around 6.000 inhabitants and offers all the services and accommodations that a capital should, but without the oppression of big cities. It offers several monuments such as La torre del Conde (the tower of the count), La Iglesia de la Asunción (Asunción Church), el pozo del Agua (The water well), la casa de Colón (Columbus House)...

The island possesses six townships: San Sebastián, Hermigua, Agulo, Vallehermoso, Alajeró y Valle Gran Rey