Please note: In many cases, the station position in our database is accurate
to only one minute. Thus, the tide gauge may not appear to be on the coast.
La Palma is on the island of La Palma in the Canaries. It is a new station first data 2009 it forms part of the newly established REDMAR network. Gauge is a MIROS radar sensor. Benchmark Pto.6.020 is 4.302m relative to the REDMAR datum. See paper B. Perez et al 'Overlapping sea leveltime series measured using different technologies: an example from the REDMAR Spanish network'.
Documentation added 2014-04-28
At the request of Puertos del Estado the latitude and longitude of 28.668889 -17.766667 derived from the previously supplied degrees and minutes value has been revised to 28.67780 -17.76795 tthe postion of the new MIROS gauge in decimal degrees.
Data Authority
Puertos del Estado Area de Conocimiento y Analisis del Medio Fisico Avda. del Partenon, 10 28042 Madrid
Documentation added 2001-03-06
The Area de Conocimiento y Analisis del Medio Fisico was formerly known as the Departamento de Clima Maritimo.