Tinerfe

Statue of Tinerfe (Adeje, Tenerife).

Tinerfe "the Great", legendary hero who was a guanche mencey (king aboriginal) of the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).

He was the son of mencey Sunta, who ruled the island in the days before the conquest of the Canary Islands by Castilla. Tinerfe the Great lived in Adeje (like all his predecessors), approximately hundred years before the conquest of 1494.

The children of Tinerfe were:

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