Capital: Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Area: 2,034 km²
Population: 886,033
Airports: 2: Los Rodeos TFN (North) 11km from Santa Cruz, & Reina Sofia TFS (South) 65km from Santa Cruz, in the southern tourist region.
Photography, Film & TV Production Services Tenerife
Tenerife is the largest of the 7 Canary Islands and usually the easiest island to work on, as the majority of the freelance crew and equipment is based here and there are a huge variety of location types to choose from. The Film!CanaryIslands offices are based here, in the south of Tenerife, 3km from TFS airport and 5km from the main tourist area.
Location Highlights
- The biggest volcanic crater on earth, diameter 15 Km
- The Teide National Park at about 2.200 m height with, exceptional lighting and weather conditions (all DOP's agree)
- Lunar landscape
- All kinds of volcanic rock formations
- Alpine mountain scenery, roads & winding serpentine
- Huge cliffs
- Beaches of all colours (black to yellow)
- Desert scenes to rainforest
- City life
- Unique buildings, wide range of modern and colonial architecture
- Fishing & sports harbours, boats & yachts
- Six beautiful golf courses
- All types of sports facilities
- Exceptional locations like the Loro Parque, Siam Park, Jungle Park, Aqua Park and events including the Tenerife Carnival, the biggest outside of Rio de Janeiro and many local fiestas
- The second biggest 5 star hotel infrastructure in the world, located in South Tenerife, offering incredible locations such as swimming pools, bars, gardens