Necrópolis de Arteara
The Necrópolis de Arteara is Gran Canaria’s largest cemetery of its pre-Hispanic—often called aborigine—inhabitants. It lies in the south of the island by the right bank of the barranco de Fataga, beside Arteara in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana. What you see here is a landscape of more than 800 tumular burials, built with stones from the area—especially those created after the collapse of the nearby Morro Garito. The necropolis covers 137,535 m², and in its early form it was enclosed by a dry-stone wall that still shows along parts of the perimeter. Burials were arranged as stony túmulos with a cista—a box-like mortuary chamber—covered by an additional superposed structure or towerlet. Their shapes vary, including troncoconical, pyramidal, circular, and rectangular forms. …
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