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Epidemia de peste de 1582

San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife - Área Metropolitana, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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Epidemia de peste de 1582

Historical milestone · San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife - Área Metropolitana, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

San Cristóbal de La Laguna

Image of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, not of the place itself.

In 1582 an outbreak of Black Death ravaged La Laguna, then the de facto capital of the Canary Islands, causing between 5,000 and 9,000 deaths according to the sources.

1582

Photo: Photograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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