ConquistaHistory17th CenturyLegendary privateer
Privateer and merchant
Tenerife sailor, merchant and authorised privateer known as Amaro Pargo. His public memory is linked to La Laguna, his family house and the Santo Domingo convent.
Amaro Pargo
Privateer and merchant · 1678–1747
Early life
Amaro Rodríguez Felipe, known as Amaro Pargo, was born on 3 May 1678. The official sources consulted present him as a Tenerife privateer and preserve his heritage memory around La Laguna and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Historical role
The House of Amaro Pargo was declared a protected heritage monument, which documents his family and material setting without relying on later legends. The Santo Domingo convent in La Laguna provides the second heritage focus of his public memory.
Legacy
His historical figure is best understood as that of a sailor, merchant and authorised privateer. Treasure traditions and novelistic accounts belong to his legendary reception, not to the documentary core of his biography.
Timeline
- 1678Amaro Pargo is born in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife.
- 1747Amaro Pargo dies in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife.
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- Decreto 128/2004, de 21 de septiembre, por el que se declara Bien de Interés Cultural, con categoría de Monumento, la Casa de Amaro Pargo · Boletín Oficial de Canarias
- Decreto 104/2003, de 26 de junio, por el que se declara Bien de Interés Cultural, con categoría de Sitio Histórico, el Convento de Santo Domingo · Boletín Oficial de Canarias
- 340 aniversario del nacimiento del corsario tinerfeño Amaro Pargo · Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz de Tenerife