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Historia Concisa de Canarias [Concise History of the Canaries] (in Spanish). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Benchomo. ISBN 84-95657-84-8. Santiago Casañas, J. G. (2013). Cronología y Síntesis de la Conquista de Gran Canaria [Chronology and Synthesis of the Conquest of Gran Canaria] (in Spanish). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Bilenio Publicaciones.
Flag of Gran Canaria. Gran Canaria (UK: / ˌ ɡ r æ n k ə ˈ n ɛər i ə,-ˈ n ɑːr-/, US: / ˌ ɡ r ɑː n k ə ˈ n ɑːr i ə,-ˈ n ɛər-/; [2] [3] Spanish: [ɡɾaŋ kaˈnaɾja] ⓘ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, [4] an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa and is part of Spain.
The Romans named each of the islands: Ninguaria or Nivaria (Tenerife), Canaria (Gran Canaria), Pluvialia or Invale (Lanzarote), Ombrion (La Palma), Planasia (Fuerteventura), Iunonia or Junonia (El Hierro) and Capraria (La Gomera). From the 14th century onward, sailors from Mallorca, Portugal and Genoa made numerous visits.
The Dutch concentrated on Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, attempting to burn it down. The Dutch pillaged Maspalomas, on the southern coast of Gran Canaria, San Sebastián on La Gomera, and Santa Cruz on La Palma, but eventually gave up the siege of Las Palmas and withdrew. Christian prisoners are sold as slaves in a square in Algiers.
It is located 600 m (1,969 ft) (in direct line) south of the northern coast of the Gran Canaria island, on the small GC-291 road, near Las Palmas (23 km (14 mi) east) and Agaete (11 km (7 mi) south-west) (see § "Access" for more details). Galdar is about 4 km (2 mi) west in direct line. The site overlooks the San Felipe ravine, a north ...
Gran Canaria a spiritual and religious person in charge, who directed the worship. Maguadas or Arimaguadas Tenerife Gran Canaria women priestesses dedicated to worship. They took part in some rituals. Kankus Tenerife the priests responsible for the worship of the ancestor spirits and Maxios (minor gods or genies).
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria became the capital of the latter, and integrated the islands of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. Las Palmas is a sister city of San Antonio, Texas , in the United States, which was founded in 1718 by about 25 Canary Islanders.
Risco Caído is a land-form and archaeological site on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain. The site contains prehistoric cave dwellings, temples, and granaries attributed to the pre-Hispanic culture of the Canary Islands. It is also considered to have been used as an astronomical observatory by Aboriginal people.