The Banana Informative Center, 'North Park', already it has the authorization.

DEDICATED TO THE CULTURE AND CULTIVATION OF THIS FRUIT, IT WILL BE INSTALLED IN LLANOS DE LA CALETA IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF GÁLDAR.

The authorization has been possible through a decree approved by the Government Council of the Government of the Canary Islands that declares it of public interest and approves the Territorial Action Project (PAT) for its implementation.This PAT aims to exploit the center along with the commercialization of banana production, the cultivation and marketing of ornamental plants and the exploitation of a complementary cafeteria and restaurant activity.

In this way, The PAT is declared of public and social interest because it provides for the creation of 20 direct full-time jobs and will generate an indefinite number of hires of freelancers and part-time employees, contributing to the diversification of the agrarian economy and the economic development of the Northwest Region of Gran Canaria.

The activity will be pioneering in Gran Canaria, being one of the few centers of these characteristics in the world, In addition to considering “a cultural and informative reference” of banana cultivation.

The project involves the maintenance and recovery for agricultural use of approximately 75 percent of the plot, which translates into some 30.000 square meters, of those who 18.000 They are greenhouse and 12.000 of ornamental plants.

The Government of the Canary Islands also considers the need to locate the project on rural land proven., since the activity to be developed involves the in situ demonstration of banana cultivation and has as a logical assumption the existence of a banana farm, from which it is inseparable.

The planned actions are also included in the Consolidated Text of the Laws of Territorial Planning and Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands. (TRLOTENC), which states that the equipment necessary for the provision of services of social interest such as cultural facilities are actions of general interest on rural land., teachers and similar.

It will also serve to reinforce the existing cultural circuit on the ethnographic or archaeological values ​​of the area such as the Cueva Pintada de Gáldar., the deposits of La Guancha, The Hole or Bocabarranco, Los Mugaretes de El Clavo or the coastal cave of La Furnia.