Tinerfe

Statue of Tinerfe (Adeje, Tenerife).

Tinerfe "the Great", legendary hero who was a guanche mencey (king aboriginal) of the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).

He was the son of mencey Sunta, who ruled the island in the days before the conquest of the Canary Islands by Castilla. Tinerfe the Great lived in Adeje (like all his predecessors), approximately hundred years before the conquest of 1494.

Upon Tinerfe's death, his sons divided the island into nine kingdoms. At the time of the conquest the kings of these kingdoms were:

In the toponymy of the island

The eighteenth-century historians Juan Núñez de la Peña and Tomás Arias Marín de Cubas, among others, state that the name of the island of Tenerife could come from Tinerfe.[1]

References

  1. ↑ El nombre de Tenerife. Joaquín Caridad Arias

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