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A. An archipelago is a chain or group of islands like the British Isles, the Philippines or Hawaiian Islands. Like Hawaii, the Canary Islands were created by volcanic eruptions over a hotspot in the Earth’s crust.
C. In 2023, 13.9 million tourists visited the archipelago’s seven main islands. The protesters don’t want to end tourism, but they say it needs to be limited. Water resources are being over exploited, and residents are being priced out of housing by short-term rentals and home sales to foreigners.
D. Residents of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland accounted fro 29% of the tourists in 2007. Spanish citizens from outside the autonomous community of the Canary Islands accounted for 22%, and Germans accounted for 21%.
B. The number of migrants from West Africa who braved the Atlantic Ocean in fragile boats to reach Canary Islands jumped more than 1,000% in January from a year ago. A total of 7,270 irregular migrants arrived in the European Union islands compared with 566 in the same month in 2023.