UD Lanzarote UD Lanzarote Unión Deportiva Lanzarote is a Spanish football team based in Arrecife, Lanzarote, in the autonomous community of Canary Islands. Founded in 1970 it plays in Tercera División – Group 12, holding home games at the "Ciudad Deportiva de Lanzarote" (sports city), a 6,000-seat stadium which is shared with CD Orientación Marítima. "Unión Deportiva Lanzarote" was formed in August 1970, in views to a representation outside of the island. In its beginnings the team played on "picón" (volcanic granules), eventually moving on to FIFA-approved artificial grass. In its first competitive season, 1970–71, the team won the "Segunda Regional Insular"
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.