The Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape is located in the vast mountainous area of the island of Gran Canaria, Spain. The landscape comprises ravines, cliffs and volcanic formations with rich biodiversity. The site also includes a large number of troglodyte settlements – habitats, granaries and cisterns – which bear testimony to the presence of a pre-Hispanic culture on the island. Cult cavities and two sacred temples, or almogarenes – Risco Caido and Roque Bentayga – are part of the troglodyte complex.
The property has troglodyte sites, which contain a large number of rock art images, some of which are very probably cultural, and farming settlements, giving rise to a cultural landscape that still conserves most of its original elements, and the visual relationships between them. The vestiges of this pre-Hispanic culture have survived in time and space, shaping the landscape, and conserving traditional practices such as transhumance, terrace-farming installations, and water management installations. The Libyco-Berber inscriptions constitute unquestionable proof of the local presence of a pre-Hispanic culture, and bear testimony to the westernmost expression of Amazigh culture, which, for the first time, evolved into another unique insular culture.
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