Playa de Las Teresitas

The Playa de Las Teresitas is a beach north of the town of San Andres region of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in Tenerife, Spain. Initially the shoreline comprised of for the most part shakes and a little piece of dark sand. It was separated into three particular parts that had distinctive names: Tras la Arena which was the first, Los Moros in the center, lastly the territory limited by the gorge of Las Teresas. In 1973, 270,000 tons of white sand was dispatched from Spanish Sahara to make a counterfeit beach of white sand. Two wharfs and a kilometer long embankment found 150 meters from the shoreline was built to keep waves from doing the sand to the ocean.

The undertaking cost 50 million pesetas and what's more 400 million pesetas in 1998 when another 2,800 tons sand from Sahara was added to renew the sand lost in the shoreline's 25 first long periods of presence. It is a standout amongst the most prevalent shorelines of the Canary Islands, and is one of only a handful few on Tenerife that don't have the dark, volcanic sand that the vast majority of whatever is left of the Canary Islands have. Others, for example, Las Vistas, in Los Cristianos, are counterfeit, yet the shoreline at El Medano is totally common.