Geography

It has an area of 102.05 km². Along with the capital island and other municipalities, it is part of the metropolitan area of Santa Cruz de Tenerife-La Laguna. The capital city is at an altitude of 546 meters, with an average temperature lower than other areas of similar altitude (16 ° C on average) and the highest rainfall (over 600 mm annual average).   There are frequent fogs.  The zip code of its historic center is 38,201.
Lagoon from the Massif de Anaga

Population: The municipality has 148,375 inhabitants (INE, January 2008), plus a floating population of students from other islands.
Gentile: Its inhabitants are called marsh.

The aboriginal name of the area where the city sits (which won the title of World Heritage Site) is Aguer.   That name is now often used to refer to the poetic or journalistic Laguna. It is also often called “City of Progress” because Adelantado Alonso Fernandez de Lugo and his descendants lived there.

There is a commercial and urban area in the center and south of the town and a tourist area on the north coast. In the southern part of town are the main industrial sites: The Majuelo, Las Torres de Taco, The Butter, The Chumbera, etc where factories are which concentrate on food and manufactured goods, exports and food stores, DIY, cars and household equipment.  The majority of the population works in the service sector. In the town is the University of La Laguna, with some 24,000 students during 2005/6.

The town of La Laguna has the most number of large shopping malls on the island, Tenerife North Airport, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna University, the capital-based Diocese of Nivariense (Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife), the Provincial Archives, and a number of institutions that give significant importance to the archipelago.