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San Bartolomé de Tirajana

San Bartolomé de Tirajana is a village and a Spanish municipality in the south-western part of the island of Gran Canaria in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands.

San Bartolomé de Tirajana
San Bartolomé de Tirajana · Wikimedia Commons
The place

San Bartolomé de Tirajana is a village and a Spanish municipality in the south-western part of the island of Gran Canaria in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands. With an area of 333.13 km2 (128.62 sq mi), San Bartolomé de Tirajana is the largest municipality in area on the island as well as the Canary Islands. The population is 56,698 (2013).

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around San Bartolomé de Tirajana

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Pico de las Nieves

    Pico de las Nieves is the highest peak and a stratovolcano on the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Its height is 1,949 metres above sea level.

    4 km · mountain in Las Palmas Province, Spain · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Morro de la Agujereada

    Morro de la Agujereada is the highest elevation of the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Located in Pico de las Nieves, it reaches a height of 1,956 meters above sea level, being the highest elevation in the province of Las Palmas.

    3.9 km · mountain on Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Temisas Astronomical Observatory

    The Temisas Astronomical Observatory is an astronomical observatory on the island of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, Spain. It is located on Montaña de Arriba, Temisas, in the Agüimes municipality in the south-east of the island, at an altitude of 850 metres.

    5 km · Astronomical Observatory in Gran Canaria · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to San Bartolomé de Tirajana

Airports
Gran Canaria (LPA), 18 km · Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna (TFN), 98 km · Tenerife Sur (TFS), 99 km
  • Tenerife → San Bartolomé de Tirajana
    111 km · quickest by road, 7h 39m · €23–32
  • El Matorral → San Bartolomé de Tirajana
    176 km · quickest by road, 5h 31m · €26–36
  • San Bartolomé → San Bartolomé de Tirajana
    4934 km · quickest by air, 14h 49m · €710–1,090
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for San Bartolomé de Tirajana

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for San Bartolomé de Tirajana. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAlong smaller roads hitch-hiking is considerably easy.

From Wikivoyage: Gran Canaria, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,172 km
  2. 02
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,264 km
  3. 03
    Santo AntãoCV

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,557 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    2,742 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,802 km

If you know how people move in San Bartolomé de Tirajana – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to San Bartolomé de Tirajana

San Bartolomé de Tirajana is 25 km from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.