Puerto de Mogán

Puerto de Mogán is a picturesque resort and fishing village in the municipality of Mogán, set at the mouth of a steep-sided valley on the south-west coast of the island of Gran Canaria.

View of Puerto de Mogán
Puerto de Mogán
Puerto de Mogán from an airplane

It attracts many tourists either to stay or on day-visits. Canals linking the marina to the fishing harbour have led to it being nicknamed "Little Venice" or the "Venice of the Canaries". Its beach (Mogán beach or playa de Mogán) has a good reputation.[1] Restaurants and bars fringe the marina and the beach front.

On Fridays there is a very popular market which brings in tourists from all over the island.

Puerto de Mogán has very few buildings over two storeys high and the government of Gran Canaria restricts new buildings taller than this.

Access

Puerto de Mogán can be reached via a new extension of the motorway GC1 (opened in March 2013) which terminates just to the north of the village, and is also on several bus routes.

  • Alley
  • The marina to the left and the beach in the centre, with the Mogán valley behind
  • Alley

Heritage sites

Archaeology

Three sites within the municipality are listed as properties of cultural interest in the "archaeological zone" category:[2]

  • Cañada de los Gatos or Lomo los Gatos ("valley of the cats"), at the mouth of the Mogán ravine that opens onto Mogan beach[3][4][note 1]
  • Cañada de la Mar ("valley of the sea"), declared an archaeological property of cultural interest in 2005[5]

Ethnology

Mogán's windmill, also known as the Molino quemado ("burnt mill"), has been listed since 2002 as a heritage site in the ethnological category.[9] It stands in the Mogán valley 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north-east of Puerto de Mogán.[10]

Notes and references

Notes
    1. This uTube video shows the Mogán ravine (1'02–1'11) where the Cat's' ravine archaeological site is located.

    References
    1. Playa de Mogan on spain-grancanaria.com.
    2. List of archaeological sites in Mogan municipality, on grancanariapatrimonio.com. See also Mogan Archived 2016-08-09 at the Wayback Machine on estodotuyo.com.
    3. Lomo Los Gatos on grancanariapatrimonio.com.
    4. "Decree 259/1993, September 24, 1993, by which the Cats' ravine ("Lomo de los Gatos" is declared Bien de Interés Cultural, in the category of archaeological zone. BOC N° 137" (in Spanish). 27 October 1993. p. 1735..
    5. "Decree 175/2005, July 20, 2005, by which "La Cañada de La Mar" is declared Bien de Interés Cultural, in the category of archaeological zone. BOC No. 149" (in Spanish). 1 August 2005. p. 14376..
    6. La Cogolla de Veneguera on grancanariapatrimonio.com. 27.85330893001731°N 15.772999830897652°E / 27.85330893001731; 15.772999830897652.
    7. "Decree 39/2006, May 9, 2006, by which "La Cogolla de Veneguera" is declared Bien de Interés Cultural, in the category of archaeological zone. BOC N° 093" (in Spanish). 16 May 2006..
    8. Mogan Windmill on toponimograncanaria.blogspot.fr.
    9. "Decree 39/2006, May 9, 2006, by which "La Cogolla de Veneguera" is declared Bien de Interés Cultural, in the category of archaeological zone" (PDF) (in Spanish). 28 October 2002. p. 17795..
    10. The Burnt mill on googlemaps.com.

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    Weather Station at El Cercado, near Puerto de Mogán

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