Telesforo Bravo

Telesforo Bravo Expósito was born in Puerto de la Cruz on 5 January 1913. He died on 7 January 2002. The Fundación Canaria Telesforo Bravo-Juan Coello documents his training as a national schoolteacher, his studies in Natural Sciences in Madrid and his specialisation in geology and hydrology.

His doctoral thesis was titled Estudio Geológico y Petrográfico de la Isla de La Gomera. At the University of La Laguna he was an interim associate professor from 1960 and in 1966 obtained the chair of Geology as professor of Petrology and Geochemistry.

His work is linked to geology, hydrogeology, volcanology, groundwater and Canarian natural heritage. He received the Canary Islands Prize for Research and Innovation in 1989. In 2009, the Boletín Oficial de Canarias documented the renaming of the IES Puerto de la Cruz as Puerto de la Cruz: Telésforo Bravo.