Menceyato de Daute
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Guanches
Guanches is the name given to the aboriginal Berber inhabitants of the Canary Islands. It is believed that they migrated to the archipelago sometime between 1000 BCE and 100 BCE or perhaps earlier...
(native kingdoms) that was divided the island of Tenerife
Tenerife
Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...
(Spain
Spain
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) after the death of King Tinerfe
Tinerfe
Tinerfe "the Great", legendary hero who was a guanche mencey of the island of Tenerife .He was the son of mencey Sunta, who ruled the island in the days before the conquest of the Canary Islands by Castilla...
, in the period before the conquest of the islands by the Crown of Castile
Crown of Castile
The Crown of Castile was a medieval and modern state in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then King Ferdinand III of Castile to the vacant Leonese throne...
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Occupied by the extension of the existing municipalities of El Tanque, Los Silos, Buenavista del Norte
Buenavista del Norte
Buenavista del Norte is a municipality and town on the north coast of Tenerife. It is located on the TF42 Road about 75 km west of the capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife , and 65km from Tenerife North Airport....
and Santiago del Teide
Santiago del Teide
Santiago del Teide is a municipality in the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Its area is 52.26 km², the population is 10,777 . Resort towns in the municipality are Acantilados de Los Gigantes, Puerto de Santiago, Playa de la Arena and Santiago del Teide....
and menceys were Cocanaymo and Romén.