Tías, Las Palmas

Lanzarote's largest tourist resort, Puerto del Carmen, is entirely in the municipality of Tías, and was the location of the first hotels ever built on the island. Other settlements in the municipality are Mácher, La Asomada, Conil, Masdache.

Notable residents

The town of Tías is or has been home to:

• José Saramago, Portuguese writer, playwright and journalist, Nobel Prize for Literature 1998
• Alberto Vazquez-Figueroa, Spanish writer and novelist
• Helen Lindes, Spanish model, Miss Spain 2000 and runner-up to Miss Universe 2000
• Guillermina Fernández Díaz, born June 1902, the oldest Canary Island resident