Güímar

Guimar is a municipality in the northeast of Tenerife, with 18,589 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). It is with the neighboring municipality of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the South motorway TF -1 and the old road of Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Adeje connected. Guimar is located southeast of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Neighboring municipalities are Arafo in the north, Fasnia in the south and La Orotava in the West.

The municipality has an area of ​​102.92 km ² at an average altitude of 289 m above sea level.

Attractions

  • Pyramids of Guimar - built in the 19th century, marketed as Guanchenbauwerke.

Population Development

Personalities

Sons and daughters

  • Pedro Manuel Guerra Mansito, Songwriter
  • Domingo Pérez Cáceres (1882-1961) Bishop of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna

Swell

  • ISTAC ( Statistical Department of the Regional Government of the Canary Islands)
  • Juan Francisco Navarro Mederos / Maria Cruz Jiménez Gómez: El difusionismo atlántico y las Piramides de chacona, in: Miguel Ángel Molinero Polo y Domingo Sola Antequera: Arte y Sociedad del antiguo Egipto. Madrid 2000, ISBN 978-84-7490-604-2, pp. 241-253.
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