The figures linked with Tenerife help turn broad historical processes into concrete biographies and local memory.
Biographies linked with Tenerife 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 Teide and sacred landscape, Historic La Laguna, Port and mobility, which connect landscape, memory and everyday life. This section connects local memory with the project's general figures section.
Key points
Bencomo, mencey de Taoro
El lider mas destacado de la resistencia guanche frente a la conquista castellana, cuya figura simboliza la independencia del mundo prehispanico.
Tinguaro
Hermano de Bencomo y guerrero destacado en la batalla de La Matanza, cuya muerte en combate abrio el camino a la derrota definitiva de la resistencia guanche.
Jose de Anchieta
Misionero jesuita nacido en La Laguna que desarrollo su vida apostolica en Brasil, donde fue canonizado por el Papa Francisco en 2014.
Agustin de Bethencourt
Ingeniero y cientifico nacido en Puerto de la Cruz, considerado uno de los grandes ingenieros del siglo XIX por sus obras en Europa y Rusia.
Oscar Dominguez
Pintor surrealista nacido en La Laguna, figura de relacion entre el surrealismo europeo y la cultura visual canaria durante el siglo XX.
Figures linked with Tenerife
Bencomo
Mencey of Taoro
c. 1438 - 1496
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Dácil
Princess of Taoro
c. 1460
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Pedro Fernández de Lugo
Second adelantado of the Canaries
c. 1476 - 1536
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Alonso Luis Fernández de Lugo
Third adelantado of the Canaries
c. 1506 - 1556
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Fray José de Anchieta
Jesuit missionary and saint
1534 - 1597
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Fray Alonso de Espinosa
Friar and historian
c. 1543 - c. 1600
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Antonio de Viana
Physician and poet
1578 - c. 1650
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Pedro de San José de Betancur
Missionary and saint
1626 - 1667
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Amaro Pargo
Privateer and merchant
1678 - 1747
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José de Viera y Clavijo
Enlightenment historian and naturalist
1731 - 1813
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Tomás de Iriarte
Neoclassical poet and fabulist
1750 - 1791
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María del Carmen Betancourt
Inventor and scientist
1758 - 1824
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José Murphy
Politician
1774 - 1841
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Fermín Cedrés Hernández
Organist and composer
1844 - 1927
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Juan Bethencourt Alfonso
Anthropologist and Historian
1847 - 1913
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Teobaldo Power
Composer and pianist
1848 - 1884
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Secundino Delgado
Canarian nationalist and journalist
1867 - 1912
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Mercedes Pinto
Writing / activism
1883 - 1976
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Juan Reyes Bartlet
Band director and composer
1889 - 1967
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Agustín Espinosa
Poet
1897 - 1939
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Manuel Bonnín Guerín
Classical composer
1898 - 1993
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Eduardo Westerdahl
Art Critic and Vanguardist
1902 - 1983
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Emeterio Gutiérrez Albelo
Poetry
1904 - 1969
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Elfidio Alonso Rodríguez
Journalist, Republican deputy and exile
1905 - 2001
Meet figuresMunicipalities of Tenerife
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- ArafoArafo is a municipality of Tenerife, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- AricoArico is a municipality of Tenerife, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- AronaArona is a municipality of Tenerife, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- Buenavista del NorteBuenavista del Norte is a municipality of Tenerife, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- CandelariaCandelaria is a municipality of Tenerife, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.