Southern Tenerife Coast

The southern waters of Tenerife form part of the sea routes through the western Canary Islands. The island’s Guanche inhabitants resisted Castilian conquest in the 1490s, before Tenerife was incorporated into the Crown of Castile in 1496. Ships departing for Atlantic crossings stopped in the archipelago for supplies and repairs. In 1492 Christopher Columbus visited the Canaries before sailing west from La Gomera.