Local by design
A real geographic hierarchy — island, municipality, city — sits under every listing. Filters, category pages and search all inherit it, so nothing floats free of where it actually is.
About Canarionet
A local directory for the Canary Islands, built to be trusted
Nine topics, three languages, every island and municipality. Independently built and independently funded — so the results you see are ordered by relevance, not by who paid the most.
What Canarionet is
A multi-topic directory covering the whole archipelago: what to hire, what to do, where to go, what's on, what's for sale, who's hiring, and who's behind it. Everything is anchored to a real place — island, municipality, city — so a search is always locally relevant rather than nationally vague.
It exists because the alternative is scattered: a business on one social platform, an event on another, a service buried in a group chat, and nothing at all in German. One searchable, structured, trilingual place is more useful than nine half-abandoned ones.
What you can find here
Nine topics, each with its own categories, filters and geography.
Services
Home, professional and specialist services from local providers.
Activities
Guided tours, experiences, sport and leisure across the islands.
Events
Concerts, markets, workshops and cultural gatherings, with dates and venues.
Places
Viewpoints, beaches, heritage sites and the things worth the detour.
Spaces
Places to stay, work and train — co-living, coworking, studios, camps.
Products
Physical and digital products from local sellers.
Opportunities
Jobs, freelance work and collaborations from local organisations.
Articles
Guides and local know-how — residency, healthcare, setting up a business.
Organisations
Full profiles for the businesses, associations and institutions behind it all.
How the platform is built
Genuinely trilingual
Spanish, English and German across search, listings, categories and navigation. Not a translation widget bolted onto a Spanish site — each language is a first-class version of the page.
Verified where it counts
Organisations can go through business verification, and verified ones are clearly marked. Some actions — publishing articles, for instance — require it. You can always see which is which.
Open about where things come from
Imported public-sector records are labelled as such on the page, with the source, licence and retrieval date published. Nothing is passed off as ours.
Readable by machines, not for sale to them
We publish a machine-readable map of the site and run a Model Context Protocol server, so AI assistants can read listings and cite them. What we do not do is sell placement in those answers, for the same reason we do not sell backlinks — a directory people can trust is the product.
How it works
01
Search by topic and place
Pick a topic, then narrow by island, municipality, category, language or keyword. Results stay geo-rooted at every step.
02
Read the full profile
Every listing sits under a complete organisation profile — location, opening hours, media, reviews, verification status, and what else they offer.
03
Get in touch on your terms
Call, email, message through the platform where the organisation has it enabled, or head to their own site. No booking middleman and no commission on what you agree between you.
Where the data comes from
Most listings are published by the organisations themselves. Some reference entries — public venues, cultural sites, institutional events — are built from open public-sector datasets, and those carry a visible source note. Every dataset we use is listed with its provider, licence and retrieval date, and any organisation can claim its own reference profile and take it over.
See every data source and licenceHow it pays for itself
Canarionet is built and run independently — no venture capital, no investor growth targets, no acquisition to plan around. Hosting, infrastructure, data quality and development are funded by organisation subscriptions and by people who choose to chip in.
That model only works if we're straight about it, so here is exactly what it does and doesn't involve:
- No third-party ad networks and no display advertising anywhere on the site.
- No selling or brokering of personal data — not to advertisers, not to anyone.
- Paid partnerships and affiliate offers do exist, and every one of them is labelled as such on the page where it appears.
- Search results are ordered by relevance. A subscription buys reach, tools and capability — never a better position in someone else's results.
And if it doesn't work out: closing down is written into the terms rather than left to goodwill — at least 90 days' notice, a free export of everything you keep here, and printed QR codes that keep working for 12 months afterwards.What happens if we stop
If you run something here
Publishing is free. A profile gets you an indexed, trilingual page with structured data behind it; a subscription adds outbound links, verification, messaging, catalogues and your own hosted site.
Start exploring
Browse the directory, or create an account and put your organisation on the map.