The Canary Islands were named after what animal? - Quora
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Written Dec 11, 2014
Named after dogs, actually. The colonizers were intrigued to find dogs along with the native people that lived there.
There is an old word for dog in Spanish, which is "can", and so they were named "Islas Canarias".
The shield of the islands has two dogs, one on each side, to allude to this.
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