The Palm Islands are three large artificial island projects being constructed in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The islands are being built in the shape of palm trees, with residential and commercial areas. The Palm Jumeirah is the smallest island at 5.6 square kilometers, while Palm Deira is the largest at 46.35 square kilometers and won't be completed until around 2015. The islands aim to vastly increase Dubai's beachfront and attract tourism with luxury hotels, resorts, and other amenities.

1. Realizado por:
Daniela Cristancho
Karen Gonzales
Jonathan Gonzales
Rubén Rincón

2. The Palm Islands, Palm Islands are a group of three
artificial islands currently under construction, which
are among the world's largest of its kind. On these
islands, infrastructure build commercial and
residential, it is expected to become a tourist
destination.

3. They are in the seaside city of Dubai in the UAE. The
project will increase the surface about 520 km of
beaches of Dubai and the company holds Nakheel
Properties, which in turn, entrusted the construction
and development to the Belgian company Jan de Nul
and Van Oord Dutch.

4. These islands are named after their shape: a date palm.
They consist of three main sections:
• The trunk: Where is the island's main avenue and main
entrances are located. Also reached the second part of the
island called
• The fronds: Simulates the foliage of the palm and the
three islands, this area is exclusively residential use.
• Increasing: encircles the island crescent-shaped (hence
the name) and acts as a huge breakwater.

7. It is the second artificial island according to their size (8.4 km ²). Its
dimensions are 7 km by 7.5 km. Construction began in 2002.
Its design is the most interesting because, as seen from the air, you can read
a poem of 84 letters created by 404 houses on the water, one of which read
as follows: "Take wisdom from the sage, This leads to a man of vision to
write on water. Not everyone who rides the horse is a jockey. Great men have
great challenges”. In 2007, the design is already built on sand, but there are
no houses or any building. It has the world's tallest tower (300 m higher than
the second) was inaugurated January 4, 2010

10. The Palm Jumeirah in early 2006.Its construction began in 2001.
It is the smallest of the 3 islands, with 5.6 km ² 1 Its length is 5
km and a width of 5.5 km. Add 78 miles of coastline to Dubai.
The first phase of development of the Palm Jumeirah will provide
4,000 residents within the next 3 to 4 years.
The first residents began moving to the island in late 2006, five
years after the project started, as noted by Nakheel
Properties, developer of the work.
It will be one of the hotel chain Trump: The Palm Trump Hotel &
Tower Dubai, too, another project already under construction:
the Atlantis Tower which was completed in December 2008. He
began work at all in 2009. all details

13. The Palm Jumeirah and Jebel Ali in their construction require
100 million cubic meters of rock and sand. The Palm Deira
will have a volume of sand and rock ten times greater than
the Palm Jumeirah and Jebel Ali.
The islands will have large residential
areas, villas, apartments, restaurants, theme
parks, entertainment areas, marinas, shopping malls and
luxury hotels

14. Finally, the Palm Deira is the largest of the islands and as far
outstrips its size. Length is 14 km and 5.5 km wide, occupy an
area of approximately 46.35 km ², soil and rock. Its size is not
greater than in Paris. At present, only the works are being
initiated to build and probably not completed until 2015.