The figures linked with La Palma help turn broad historical processes into concrete biographies and local memory.
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
Ultimo caudillo benahoarita del canton de Aceró, resistio la conquista en la Caldera de Taburiente; su figura es simbolo de la resistencia indigena y la identidad palmera.
Alonso Fernandez de Lugo
Conquistador de La Palma y Tenerife, inicio el proceso en 1492; su figura es inseparable de la violencia y la reorganizacion social que siguio al dominio castellano.
Jose Maria Perez (Jose Pepe Morales)
Poeta palmero vinculado al modernismo insular; La Palma tiene una tradicion literaria propia muy ligada al paisaje de barrancos, pinos y vida marinera.
Cientificos y astronomos contemporaneos
El Roque de los Muchachos ha atraido a investigadores de todo el mundo; figuras como Lodewijk Woltjer, impulsor del Observatorio Europeo del Sur, conectan La Palma con la ciencia internacional.
Figures linked with La Palma

Manuel González Méndez
Painter
1843 - 1909
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Juan Régulo Pérez
Philologist and Publisher
1914
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Carmen Arozena Rodríguez
Painter, printmaker, illustrator, and teacher
1917
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Luis Cobiella Cuevas
Composer and cultural figure
1925 - 2013
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Maribel Nazco
Painter and sculptor
1938 - Present
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Elsa López
Writer
1943 - Present
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Luis Morera
Singer, songwriter and visual artist
1946
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Félix Francisco Casanova
Poet and Writer
1956 - 1976
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Francisca de Gazmira
Palmeran mediator and interpreter
documented 1494-1500
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Tanausú
King of Aceró
1493
Meet figuresMunicipalities of La Palma
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- Breña AltaBreña Alta is a municipality of La Palma, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- Breña BajaBreña Baja is a municipality of La Palma, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- El PasoEl Paso is a municipality of La Palma, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- Fuencaliente de La PalmaFuencaliente de La Palma is a municipality of La Palma, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- GarafíaGarafía is a municipality of La Palma, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.