The necropolis of Arteara is an archaeological site of the indigenous culture of the island of Gran Canaria on the Canary Islands in Spain. It is the largest cemetery of the natives of Gran Canaria, the Canarii. It is located next to the town of Arteara, on the right bank of the Fataga ravine, in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, in the south of the island of Gran Canaria. It consists of more than 809 tumular burials, built using the stones that line the area, as a result of a spectacular collapse of the adjacent mountain called La Cogolla. It offers an area of 37,535 square meters surrounded in the beginning by a dry stone wall, which today is still sensed on several sides of the entire perimeter.
Constructed in dry stone, they present a cist where the corpse is placed as a dry stone mortuary box and a superimposed structure or tower that covers it. Arranged for no apparent reason in this enclave of bad country, with different structural configurations such as: truncated cone, pyramidal, circular, rectangular, etc.
Regarding the chronology, a dating obtained in this site offers the date of the 5th century BC. C., (2500 years of use of this aboriginal cemetery).