Las Canteras beach it´s the main beach of the urban city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Nearly 4 kilometers of blond sand and clean transparent water. The name of the beach has always been linked to the barrier called La Barra, a sedimentary rock, of sandstone and limestone depositions that runs parallel to the shore, providing shelter against the north swell and giving it personality. It was formerly known as Reef beach, because the bar emerged from the water as a reef. It´s the favorite beach of most local people and foreigh visitors, who can enjoy it any time of the year due to it´s great weather conditions with an annual average temperature of 22ºC and 3000 hours of sunlight a year.
This passion for the sport makes the Canaries the perfect place for people of all ages to surf, as well as being the best place to learn surfing, boogie-boarding or body-boarding, thanks to the excellent schools available. It is also possible to improve your technique on the board in the various surf camps and surf trips that are held all year round.
In the city of Las Palmas there are three official surf spots for all levels, from spots for beginners to spots for professionals. The best way to learn this sport is the Beach Break at Playa de Las Canteras "La Cicer" here are of course also more surf schools.
La Cicer as it is called it´s a part of Las Canteras beach but locals called it like because before it was separated and it didn´t have an avenue. It is located at the western end of Canteras-beach, right next to the opera Auditorio Alfredo Kraus. The entrance takes place from an artificial built pier or also directly from the Las Canteras avenue. Surfing is a very popular sport in the Canaries, in fact it it´s a life style forms part of the culture of the island thats why for me La Cicer is the beach where I´ve spent most of my childhood, this is beacause my father was one of the first generation of surfers of the island, he tells me with passion that in that time foreigers came from all the world to surf in it´s waters, and they lent their surfboards to locals because there was no where to buy surfboards in Gran Canaria.
This is the best beach to learn how to surf. You should challenge your self and try to ride them on this beach which has the perfect waves.
Passion for riding the waves, adrenaline and satisfaction will make want to repeat.
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