Broken shopping centers, sporting events that no one supports, a city cranky due to traffic, and now it's time for what they call the jewel of Las Palmas and which withdraws its emergency services at 18 p.m. when its taxpayers and digital nomads are full. : the torture of Las Canteras, the little beach where there are restaurants pouring oil from the kitchens of La Puntilla into the sea. The business sector and workers in tourist centers in the south of Gran Canaria have a hard time dealing with the memes that circulate on digital and social messaging networks about Las Palmas' decision not to want to be examined and, therefore, have a flag. blue. And the mayor was Minister of Health and the blue flag was precisely to guarantee bathrooms.
The official media of Las Palmas have not wanted to do the same bloodshed as when something bad happens in the south of Gran Canaria. The beach will not display the Blue Flag, the distinction awarded by the European Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE). Last summer, regarding the loss of Las Canteras' blue flag, the vice president of ADEAC, Virginia Yuste, pointed out that to maintain the distinction, there must be bathing water quality at all sampling points. “In one of those sampling points in Las Canteras, although the quality is good, it is not excellent, which is what the criteria requires to maintain the blue flag,” said Yuste, who has considered this urban beach in the capital Gran Canaria as an “emblematic” place for its organization, which “hopes” that next year it will display the blue flag again.
Gran Canaria has 13 blue flags that correspond to Las Nieves, in Agaete; Arinaga, in Agüimes; El Puertillo and Los Charcones, Arucas; Sardina, in Gáldar; El Burrero, in Ingenio; Playa del Inglés, Maspalomas, Meloneras and San Agustín, in San Bartolomé de Tirajana; and Hoya del Pozo, Melenara and Salinetas, in Telde. In Tenerife, where there are hardly any beaches, with 14 flags, Jover beach, in La Laguna, is debuting, and El Duque and Torviscas (Adeje) maintain the flag; El Camisón, Las Vistas, Los Cristianos (Arona); El Muelle and El Caletón (Garachico); Jaquita Beach (Guía de Isora); San Marcos (Icod de los Vinos); El Socorro (Los Realejos); Bajamar and the Sandstone (La Laguna); and, finally, La Arena (Tacoronte).
A rainy day at Las Canteras Beach 
