This section covers community memory, seafaring families and figures linked to the island's recognition.
Biographies linked with La Graciosa show how wider Canarian processes take shape through concrete people: leaders, artists, religious figures, politicians, scientists or bearers of tradition.
Among its main reference points are Domestic scale, Protected landscape, Recent recognition, which connect landscape, memory and everyday life. This section connects local memory with the project's general figures section.
Key points
Historic fishing families
The memory of La Graciosa is tied to the surnames of the fishing families who settled the island from the nineteenth century onwards; their oral histories are the community's main cultural archive.
Champions of the 2018 recognition
The politicians, activists and residents who worked for years to have La Graciosa recognised as the eighth inhabited island are figures of contemporary local memory.
César Manrique and his view of the Chinijo
Manrique included the Chinijo archipelago in his vision of Lanzarote's protected landscape; his influence helped shape the conservation policy that has preserved La Graciosa.
Scientists and naturalists of the Chinijo
Marine biology and ornithology researchers have documented the archipelago's biodiversity since the twentieth century; their work was decisive in the declaration of the Nature Reserve.