Las Cucharas beach, located in the tourist town of Costa Teguise, has received the Blue Flag 2023-2024, an award that certifies - for another year - the quality of its waters, accessibility, respect for environmental regulations and the Lifeguard service and sanitary infrastructure on the beach. This badge is managed in the Canary Islands by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the General Directorate of Public Health of the Canary Islands Health Service.
"We are very happy to revalidate the Blue Flag on one of the most visited beaches in Lanzarote." "This area of the coastline is safe throughout the year," said the mayor of Teguise, Olivia Duque, who understands this recognition "as a global standard of tourist eco-quality."
Duque wanted to extend this recognition to the municipal technicians and the business community in the area, as well as to the beach users, "for contributing each year to improving its quality and continuing to maintain its attractions." For the City Council, revalidating this distinction, edition after edition since 2013, "involves an important economic effort that we will increase with a new specification to hire more lifeguards."
For the Councilor for Beaches, Rita Hernández, "Costa Teguise is in luck", because its beaches "are an attraction that we intend to conserve and promote not only for tourists, but as revitalized spaces - in sports and leisure - for residents." "Let's not forget that beaches are our main meeting points," she adds.
"It must be remembered that in total there are seven beaches in Lanzarote and Puerto Calero that maintain the blue flag, which means that the island of Lanzarote is the third in the Canary Islands in the certification of these criteria of excellence," she recalls.
"We cannot lower our guard," said Duque, "because surprise inspections are carried out, so we have to continue working day by day to maintain the environmental and service philosophy that we have proposed." Likewise, the mayor of Teguise has highlighted her commitment to "continue adding new flags, recovering, for example, the one in Jablillo."