Lanzarote is one of the seven Canary Islands, situated at a distance of some 1,000 km. from the Iberian Peninsula and a 150 km. from the coast of Africa. The Canary Archipelago belongs to Spain.

Located in the temperature zones of the Cancer Tropic and protected by the influential climatic effects, resulting from a clash between the high Saharan temperatures and the current from the Gulf of Mexico, the island enjoys an average temperature of 22°C all year round.

Some 900 square km. (including the small islands of la Alegranza, la Graciosa, Montaña Clara, Roque del Este and Roque del Oeste), with a north-south distance of 60 km. and an east-west distance of 20 km., take in the island's seven municipalities (Arrecife, Haría, San Bartolomé, Teguise, Tías, Tinajo and Yaiza) which overall have an official population of about 140,000 inhabitants (2008).

See Lanzarote's website here