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If you want to take the fastest route from the peak of the island to the bottom and vice versa, with the thrill of unrestrained speed an easy option, the GC1 superhighway is your best option. In here, you have the liberty to take your speed dial up to the 120 km/h or 75 mph notch, without fearing for the police sirens joining you in the race. This GC1 superhighway (or motorway) on the island of Gran Canaria simply fulfills your need for speed!
GC1 links the capital Las Palmas in the north with Puerto Rico in the south. Its total length is, give or take, a whooping 75 km or 47 miles and runs along the eastern and the southern coasts of this globular island.
This superhighway can give you smooth access from the airport to virtually all of the major cities, popular destinations and resorts! The resorts that are within reach from the GC1 include Maspalomas and Playa del Ingl .
When God made Gran Canaria, He made it especially for restless travelers in search for the perfect place to call a paradise here on earth. That is why, men had to create GC 1 , to address what God might have failed to anticipate -- an influx of tourists from all over the world!
The history of this efficient superhighway can be traced back from mid to late-1970s, when it was first opened just when tourism became apparently a lucrative business. The boost to the tourism industry through the years has made the GC1 route periodically upgraded and widened to cope up with the extra traffic and mileage.
Primarily, it was opened within Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , but was later extended to the Teide as well as the airport and the subdivision areas along the industrial areas. During the early 1990s it was further lengthened to also encompass several parts of the island that is most frequented by tourists all over the world until it finally reached Arguineguin. The latter extensions of the GC1 was not part of the original plan but was as much a necessity especially because of the rapid increase of its population. It eventually extends up until Puerto de Mogán with interchanges with Arguineguin.
These days, people are fully able to witness and appreciate the GC1. In its full glory, it begins at the south of downtown area of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , runs along the beaches of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and within 2 kilometers south, it intersects with the GC2, another superhighway. Furthermore, it later runs with a clover leaf interchange and eventually forms a junction with GC5, a highway, and down south, the GC31 . The highway runs east of Teide and has Parclo interchanges. An interchange is the point where two highways meet, and becomes a site of exchange for vehicles from different origins which eventually go back on their ways again.
Moreover, the GC1 passes into this special area where most of the island's farmlands are situated and goes further into the subdivision and the industrial areas where it has another Parclo interchange. This superhighway has several more interchanges at the southeast part of the region and finally comes into full circle, back to where we have started in this narrative, in the southwest north of Puerto Rico and in close proximity to Arguineguin .
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