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Museums
1. Mundo Aborigen
The Ayagaures Natural Park not only encloses an impressive natural wealth, it also offers an interesting open-air museum where it is possible to know in depth the life that the ancient aborigines that inhabited the island took. This kind of Theme Park is called Mundo Aborigen and is dedicated to the way of life, history and culture of the first settlers of the Canary Islands. Through recreations of everyday scenes and the more than 100 life-size figures that make up these scenes it is possible to know the way of life of these first inhabitants.

The beauty of the Fataga ravine implements much more the interest of this theme park on the life of the aborigines, the good weather, the good views and a very unique natural environment are reasons More than enough to visit it.

In addition to the outdoor figures recreating the daily scenes of the aborigines there is also a small building in which remains are found in the Natural Park that will help to understand much better the life thousands of years ago. The site has been declared a Site of Historical, Social and Cultural Interest by Government of the Canary Islands.
Museums
2. Necrópolis de Arteara

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).