stitutions had proved divisive contrary to the thesis, but then somehow aligned with them, hoping that the decentralization of the archipelago supusiera improvements for the island, and then defending proposals unfulfilled, as the insular constituency. As part of the lawsuit also forms the Councils Act of 1912 , with which institutions emerge as an island today conceive.
1967-2008: the era of tourism
In 1967 it had just implement the first two outlets tourist coastal area of Puerto del Carmen : Hotel Los Fariones and Hotel San Antonio, to be followed by a National Parador, at one time with a single tenant, medical officer on the island. These first two hotels would witness who may have been the biggest transformation experienced by Lanzarote throughout its history from being an underdeveloped island and thirsty, peasants, fishermen and immigrants , to become, in a few decades, in a tourism power capable of attracting almost two million visitors each year, with a rapid demographic development caused by strong immigration .
The first desalination: to thirst
To enable the "miracle resort", the island had, previously, to overcome the main obstacle which for centuries had conditioned the development of its people: the virtual absence of potable water . The climate of Lanzarote subdesert for centuries had produced numerous episodes of crisis, famine and mass emigration. At the height of 1960 , the works carried out to channel water from Famara to Arrecife or large tank filled with water from other islands created at the beginning of the century in the capital island ("The State Mareta") just sufficient to ensure rudimentary supply of only 36,000 inhabitants with which by then had the island. The solution would when 1965 is installed on Lanzarote's first desalination plantin the Canary Islands, Spain and throughout Europe , at the initiative of the Diaz Rijo, and
