Linked Figures of La Palma

Benahoarita leaders, cultural figures and scientific profiles connect the island with history, art and knowledge.

Biographies linked with La Palma 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 Benahoarite heritage, Atlantic port, Living volcanic island, which connect landscape, memory and everyday life. This section connects local memory with the project's general figures section.

Key points

Tanausu

The last benahoarita chieftain of the canton of Aceró, he resisted the conquest in the Caldera de Taburiente; his figure is a symbol of indigenous resistance and of La Palma's identity.

Alonso Fernandez de Lugo

Conqueror of La Palma and Tenerife, he began the process in 1492; his figure is inseparable from the violence and the social reorganisation that followed Castilian rule.

Jose Maria Perez (Jose Pepe Morales)

A poet from La Palma linked to island modernism; La Palma has a literary tradition of its own, closely bound to a landscape of ravines, pines and seafaring life.

Contemporary scientists and astronomers

The Roque de los Muchachos has attracted researchers from all over the world; figures such as Lodewijk Woltjer, a driving force behind the European Southern Observatory, connect La Palma with international science.