The pyramids of Güímar or heaps of stones used as landmark of chaconne

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The pyramids of Güímar or heaps of stones used as landmark of chaconne

Güímar is a belonging water primrose municipality to the province of cross female saint of Tenerife. It is put in the east of the Tenerife island.The pyramids or heaps of stones used as landmark of Güímar are framed historically in the century XIX, time of the economic exploitation in Canaries of the cochineal insect, a parasitic insect of the prickly pear plant or prickly pear of the one which extracts to him a very appreciated dyeing in that time in which still had not introduced the synthetic dyeings. The exploitation of the cochineal insect resulted very profitable. So much that they prepared to your numerous exploitation properties that, until the moment, had remained sterile due to the bad quality of the terrain, normally formed for volcanic stones. The |extraídas| stones in the cleaning of these to place stored forming pyramidal structures as those of Güímar. There are still today numerous examples of these agricultural constructions. In the case of those of Güímar, exist so much a notarial certificate of purchase of the property, dated in 1854, in which the presence of the pyramids not it mentions, as a document of division, dated in 1881 , in which these structures are mentioned for first time. The date of construction remains, therefore, marked off in this interval of 1854 to 1881.Pyramids of Güímar, Tenerife, Spain; August 12, 2003; photo taken by Steffen Löwe http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pir%C3 %A1mides_de_G%C3 %BC%C3 %ADmar

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