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Roque Bentayga

Tejeda, Gran Canaria - Oeste, Las Palmas

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Roque Bentayga

Nature · Tejeda, Gran Canaria - Oeste, Las Palmas

Basalt monolith 1,414 meters tall within the Tejeda caldera, with the Bentayga almogarén, an aboriginal place of worship, and the complex of the Cuevas del Rey and Roque Camello, with close to a hundred dwelling, burial and granary caves. Declared a Bien de Interés Cultural in the archaeological-zone category in 2018, it is integrated into the Cultural Landscape of Risco Caído and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2019.

BIC en 2018; UNESCO desde 2019

Photo: AbrahamHRLP (CC BY 4.0)

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