North Eastern Tenerife Coast

West of Tenerife, the Atlantic surrounds the volcanic islands of the western Canaries. The archipelago’s coasts were home to indigenous communities before the Castilian conquest. La Palma fell to Alonso Fernández de Lugo in 1493, and his subsequent campaign on Tenerife ended in 1496. The islands became stopping places for ocean voyages; in 1492 Columbus called in the Canaries before crossing the Atlantic.