The city in which what happens in tourism in the south of Gran Canaria is decided has been left without a blue flag on Las Canteras beach and the media in the capital of Gran Canaria have played down that defeat against Maspalomas, which has recovered it. Sardina beach in Gáldar, which has the historic port stolen by the brothers León and Castillo to take it to Las Palmas, has, like Monaco, a blue flag. Las Canteras, like Malabo in Equatorial Guinea, does not. Even in Villa Cisneros in the south of Morocco there is a blue flag on one of its beaches.
The media terminals that rule in Las Palmas have not immediately wanted to start fire as they did in 2022 when Maspalomas lost the blue flag: rivers of ink blaming problems in the south of Gran Canaria to mix everything with abandoned shopping centers and the problem of apartments from North. In Las Palmas they hide behind the fact that it was an isolated spill on Tenerife Street when, in reality, it is because the beach of Las Palmas is chaotic with its Italian terraces and the drainage system throws wasteful garbage into the sea.
For the second time in thirty-four years, Las Canteras has lost its blue flag, which recognizes the excellence of its waters and services. The jury of the Environmental and Consumer Education Association (ADEAC), the entity in charge of granting the distinctions, has determined that the most iconic sandy beach on the island does not meet the quality requirements, being "good", but not "excellent" . Since 1989, Las Canteras beach has maintained the blue flag as a badge of international quality. Only in 2010 was it left without its badge flying, the year in which the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Council did not present the application, as another episode of Fecal contamination tarnished "its excellence" and the causes were never clarified.
