Lanzarote The island is also home to one of two surviving populations of the threatened Canarian Egyptian vulture. The official natural symbols associated with Lanzarote are "Munidopsis polymorpha" (Blind crab) and "Euphorbia balsamifera" (Tabaiba dulce). Lanzarote is believed to have been the first Canary Island to be settled. The Phoenicians may have visited or settled there, though no material evidence survives. The first known record came from Roman author Pliny the Elder in the encyclopaedia "Naturalis Historia" on an expedition to the Canary Islands. The names of the islands (then called "Insulae Fortunatae" or the "Fortunate Isles") were recorded as "Junonia"
Lanzarote include Chinese people, Ecuadorians, and Indians, which constitute a large proportion of the remaining 15.6% of the population. The island has an international airport, Arrecife Airport, through which 5,438,178 passengers travelled in 2008. Tourism has been the mainstay of the island's economy for over 40 years, the only other industry being agriculture. Lanzarote is part of the province of Las Palmas, and is divided into seven municipalities: There are five hundred different kinds of plants on the island, of which 17 species are endemic. These plants have adapted to the relative scarcity of water in the same way as succulents.