Pirámides de Güímar
The Pirámides de Güímar are six terraced rectangular pyramids built from lava stone on Tenerife, and they reach up to 12 metres in height. What matters most here is how they were made and why: they date to the 19th century AD and were constructed without mortar as part of the lucrative exploitation of cochineal. Built on the terrain at Chacona, Güímar’s hillside once held nine such pyramids, but only six survive today. In the 1990s, public curiosity accelerated when local coverage and research helped lead to the creation of an ethnographic park associated with Thor Heyerdahl. In 1990, he learned about the “Canarian Pyramids” through a newspaper article by Francisco Padrón in *Diario de Avisos*, and he arrived on Tenerife with a transatlantic theory linking these structures to ancient civilizations—sparking a long-running debate across historians, archaeologists, astronomers, and esoteric writers. …
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