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Adverse weather on Adverse weather on 31 March 2002 there was a phenomenon of cold drop torrential rains accompanied at certain times of electrical device, affecting the metropolitan area of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and extending in NE direction towards the San Andres . Importantly, torrential rainfall affected a very small area in the vicinity of the capital of Tenerife. Killed 8, 12 missing, dozens injured, extensive material damage, 50,000 people without power and the total or partial destruction of at least 400 homes. 224 liters per square meter. The rain began to fall with intensity in and around the capital between 1500 and 1600 hours, while a little further north and south just a few drops fell. After half an hour it cleared and then started again to rain with great intensity and with hail up to 2000 hours, remaining few hours of weaker precipitation until midnight.The National Meteorology Institute warned no catastrophe and warned the previous day only "moderate showers. Subsequently, in 2005, Tropical Storm Delta came from the Atlantic. Began work in the Gulf of Guinea, and, contrary to what often happens, turned north, remaining stationary near the Azores and then turn east and not west as it usually also caused extensive damage, especially by strong winds. During the night of 28 November the wind increased and reached 140 km / h on the coast and almost 250 km / h in the Teide, Tenerife summit. Just when it passes through the capital, there was a sudden temperature rise and sharp decline in the relative humidity below 40 . Some 300,000 people were without power by the fall of pylons that caused the Canary Islands Government sanctioned Unelco-Endesa with an amount of 450,000 euros.The phenomenon was predicted and object of study rigorously later. On February 1, 2010 Santa Cruz de...
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History Main History Main article: History of Africa Mask of King Tutankhamun, in which the boy king is wearing the Nemes. It is believed that the southern or eastern Africa is the cradle of humanity and then come the successive species of hominids and apes that gave rise to humans and which have expanded to other continents, including Homo sapiens ago sapiens about 190,000 years. Throughout antiquity and into the early centuries of the Christian era in the history of North Africa is combined with the Merranean. Meanwhile parts of the developments live Saharan Africa different. According to the Greek historian Herodotus (484 BC), a Phoenician expion sponsored by the Pharaoh Necho (616 BC) circumnavigated the African continent for the first time. The origins of trade between west and central Africa and the Merranean Basin are lost in prehistory.The earliest historical accounts date back to antiquity and have organized the nomadic trade between Leptis Magna and Chad. This trade experienced its first boom in the first century BC C. with the rise of the Roman Empire. Above all traded with gold, slaves, ivory and exotic animals for the circus games in Rome in exchange for luxury goods in Rome. In fact it is at this time which exploits the very name of Africa. After the defeat of Carthage by Rome in the Third Punic War establishes the Roman province of Africa covering about Tunisia today. It was a territorial spread of the province which gave name to the entire continent. A crucial also had greater utilization of the camel from the first century in North Africa. From the seventh century the Arabs invaded North Africa. The caravan trade and Islamic expansion fuel the development of new relationships between the "two Africas. Kanem-Bornu Empire existed in Africa from the thirteenth century and the...