Tacoronte is a city and municipality of
Tenerife
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,
Canary Islands
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, Spain. It is located in the north-east of the island. Mostly rural, the municipality stretches for 30 square kilometers from the volcanic peaks that rise in the center of the island to the
Atlantic
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shore. The municipality seat, also called Tacoronte, lies about 16 km west of the capital,
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
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. Old manorial houses and farms are situated here, as well as vineyards that produce the wine known as ''Tacoronte-Acentejo''.
The
TF-5 motorway passes through the municipality. The
Tenerife North Airport is 4 km to the east.
Tacoronte is a
toponym
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of
Guanche Guanche may refer to:
*Guanches, the indigenous people of the Canary Islands
*Guanche language, an extinct language, spoken by the Guanches until the 16th or 17th century
*''Conus guanche
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origin, believed to be derived from ''Tagoror'', meaning "place where the Council of Elders meets". Its territory constituted an ancient ''menceyato'', as the Guanche kingdoms were known, ruled by the mencey
Acaymo. After the
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
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**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
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conquest of Tenerife, the area was settled by the Portuguese Sebastián Machado, who founded the town of Tacoronte around the hermitage of Santa Catalina that he had built. The town grew during succeeding centuries and in 1911,
Alfonso XIII of Spain
Alfonso XIII ( Spanish: ''Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena''; French: ''Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon''; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941), also ...
granted the town the status of ''municipio''.
Notable people
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María Rosa Alonso (1909–2011), Spanish professor, philologist, essayist
*
Lorenzo Javier Jorge (born 1984), kickboxer
See also
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List of municipalities in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
This is a list of the 54 municipalities in the provinces of Spain, province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province), Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands, Spain - 31 on Tenerife Island, 14 on La Palma Island, 6 on ...
References
External links
Official websiteTacoronte Guide
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Municipalities in Tenerife