Archaeological site
Necrópolis de Maipez de Arriba
The necropolis del Maipés is one of the Canaries’ major burial landscapes: a cemetery formed on volcanic ground just outside Agaete, on the island’s north-west coast. It covers more than one square kilometre and contains roughly 600 to 700 small tumuli, with construction dating from the 8th to the 10th centuries. Some individual mounds are over 1,300 years old, giving the site a comparable age range to the better-known Arteara necropolis. The story of the burials is inseparable from the lava that shaped the land. The name Maipés comes from *malpais*—“bad land”—because lava flows covered the bottom of the Maipés ravine about 3,000 years ago. …
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