Adeje is a town and municipality in the southwestern part of the island of Tenerife , one of the Canary Islands , and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife , Spain . The town Adeje is located 4 km from the coast, 8 km north of the resort town Los Cristianos , 60 km southwest of the island capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife and about 17 km northwest of Tenerife South Airport .
10-466: Adeje is the western terminus of the TF-1 motorway, which connects it with the south and east coast of the island. The Barranco del Infierno gorge is located in the municipality. Its economy is based on business, tourism and agriculture. Adeje is also home to the large water park Siam Park , which is considered one of the most prestigious water parks in the world. Adeje is an important tourist center both on
20-425: Is a motorway encircling the eastern and the southern parts of the island of Tenerife ( Canary Islands ). The TF-1 motorway runs from the capital Santa Cruz in the north to Adeje with its major tourist resorts Los Cristianos and Playa de las Américas in the south of the island, and continues to Santiago del Teide in the west. It is a 103 km motorway and interchange numbers go facing south. The motorway
30-744: Is now one of the most important tourist cities in the Canary Islands. Many seaside communities of Adeje are major tourist hot spots. The main communities there are: Located next to the water kingdom of Siam Park, Siam Mall is a shopping center with two floors, alongside an underground parking lot with 1,100 free spaces. Adeje beaches include: Adeje has a hot desert climate ( Köppen : BWh ; Trewartha : BWal ) with an annual precipitation of only 145.0 millimetres (5.71 in) and no more than 18 days of precipitation. [REDACTED] Media related to Adeje at Wikimedia Commons Autopista TF-1 The TF-1 (or Autopista del Sur , "Southern Motorway")
40-575: Is one in the Canary Islands that passes through most of the municipalities and is the longest in the archipelago. The motorway begins with the junction with the northern motorway TF-5 and the short TF-4 near the Canary Islands' only refinery and is 1 km south from the centre of Santa Cruz. The TF-1 follows the coastline to the Tenerife South Reina Sofia airport, then to Adeje and ends near Santiago del Teide . The TF-1 motorway connected Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Candelaria first in
50-594: The current TF-82 with a safer and 45 minute quicker route. Autopista TF-5 Autopista TF-5 is a motorway in the Canary Islands , in the north of Tenerife , running from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Puerto de la Cruz . Most of the motorway is a Controlled-access highway or expressway, with some single carriageway remaining west of Puerto de la Cruz . TF-5 begins in Santa Cruz de Tenerife with westbound traffic merging off from Av Tres de Mayo and ends with
60-607: The island and nationally and internationally. This municipality has the highest concentration of 5 star hotels in Europe and also has what is considered the best luxury hotel in Spain according to World Travel Awards . A hundred years before the Spanish conquest (1494), this place was the capital of the Menceyato of Adeje , one of the guanches (local kingdoms) in which the island was divided. It
70-580: The mid 1970s. In 1978 a very important extension to the new southern airport supported the creation of new villages on the south-east coast, like the small holiday resort of Abades and prepared the field for a phenomenal touristic expansion starting from Los Cristianos and extending to Las Americas. The famous town of Güímar was connected the same year. In the 1990s the TF-1 was extended to Arona and in 2001 to Adeje to meet up with an increasing demand. The motorway runs from El Rosario to San Miguel de Abona over
80-549: The motorway splitting between TF42 Motorway and TF82 Motorway in Puerto de la Cruz . At present, it is the motorway that supports the highest traffic density in the Canary Islands, with stretches in which around 100,000 cars per day circulate. From Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Los Realejos TF5 has numbered exits. 28°27′31″N 16°27′02″W / 28.45861°N 16.45056°W / 28.45861; -16.45056 This Spanish road or road transport-related article
90-428: The mountain landscape and serves mountain interchanges. The part between Candelaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife has been enlarged on 3 ways in 2008. In 2012 the TF-1 was used to film action scenes for the movie Fast and Furious 6. In 2015 TF-1 was extended from Adeje to Santiago del Teide . This extension has now been completed as from January 2016, and in doing so has provided shorter and travel distances from
100-665: The mountain towns of Santiago del Teide, Tamaimo, Chio, amongst others to Adeje, Playa de las Americas, Los Cristianos, and the southern based airport Reina Sofia (TFS). The motorway extension suffered many delays in opening due but is now fully operational as of January 2016. TF-1 will form part of the Tenerife Island Ring on the completion of the Erjos tunnel. TF-1 in Santiago del Teide will be connected to TF-5 in El Tanque, replacing
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