View of the Puerto De La Luz, photo courtesy Pneumaman.
Port of Las Palmas, also called La Luz Port (in Spanish Puerto de Las Palmas or Puerto de La Luz) is a port for fishing, commercial, passenger and sports boats in the north-west of the Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands, Spain.
For five centuries, La Luz Port has been the traditional base for scale and supplying ships on their way through the Middle Atlantic. La Luz Port is not only the first port of the Canary Islands, but also the first port in the Mid-Atlantic, and handles the most traffic at the crossroads between Europe, Africa and America. In 2007 the port handled more than 900,000 passengers, and it processed more than 11,260 ships.
