Cactualdea
Cactualdea is a private cactarium of about 15,000 square metres in La Aldea de San Nicolás, on Gran Canaria. What makes this place distinctive is the scale of its collection: it holds around 900 genera of cacti and succulent plants, spanning more than 1,300 species. Those plants come from a broad range of dry-climate regions, including Mexico, Madagascar, Guatemala, and Bolivia, so the garden isn’t just “local desert plants” transplanted onto island soil—it’s a curated cross-section of cactus diversity from multiple continents. Alongside the cacti, the landscape also includes numerous Canary palms, aloe species, and canary dragon trees, which helps explain why the collection reads like a mosaic of different Iberian-Atlantic and global arid habitats in …
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