No wonder that in the first legends or historical reviews, on the Canary Islands, Tenerife was almost always mentioned, which also known as Nivaria, since in these latitudes, the sight of an enormous snow-covered mountain visible from many miles around, emerging above the highest clouds, had made quite an impression on those ancient seafarers.

 

The Guanches of Tenerife prehispanic moderators dressed in rough skins and everything worked in clay, although unaware of the lathe, and their spears- añepa - ended in sharp points of natural volcanic stone.
Many ancient authors, and some modern - thought that the Canary Islands would be the highest visible remains of a sunken continent: Atlantis.

 

And the Guanches were the descendants of the Atlanteans. Children and grandchildren of people in the mountains of that legendary world, suddenly, after the slaughter, were transformed into islanders regret.

When Spanish conquistadors arrived in Tenerife, the island was divided into nine kingdoms or menceyatos, commanding each a monarch or mencey.