In the southern part of the island of La Palma the Roque Teneguía is located, on the southwestern slope of the San Antonio volcano belongs to the municipality of Fuencaliente.
The Roque de Teneguía has a height of 400 meters above sea level and is known as one of the most important geological formations of the municipality. One of the most important elements that has the Roque de Teneguía are the Auarite rock engravings that is located in the area. These vestiges give a good account of the interesting history that surrounds not only the Fuencaliente area, but the entire island of La Palma. It can also observe petroglyphs, (symbolic designs that have been engraved on the surface layer of the rock) spiral or labyrinth and serpentine lines that some experts attribute to the action of water.
In addition to this prehistoric element, the Roque de Teneguía is also interesting and has a certain botanical importance, here the Cabezuela or Cetaurea Junonia.
El Roque is a very old phonolite structure about 600,000 years old and has a characteristic pale yellow color. It is curious that you can see remains of the last eruption that took place in 1971.
The well-known one with the name of Cultural Park of La Zarza and La Zarcita is one of the best known archaeological sites of Palma and the archipelago. The site is located in the municipality of Garafía between the neighborhoods of La Mata and Llano Negro, consisting of two rock formations La Zarza and La Zarcita .
The sites were known thanks to A. Mata and E. Serra in 1941, the engravings that can be seen in it are the most spectacular element of La Zarza, both for the breadth of the surface recorded with 29 panels and for the complexity of the same and the broad chronology they show. Ceramic remains of phase IV were discovered, lithic tools, two fragments correspond to containers made of wood and human remains of a maxilla and fragments of the frontal and right parietal of a young individual.
The deposit of La Zarcita is smaller than that of La Zarza, with 18 panels and an interesting variety of motifs, about 500 meters from La Zarza, has two seasons La Zarcita I, with two panels formed by a spiral and spiral with meanders to the sunsets of the summer and winter solstices. And La Zarcita II with 20 panels, of which 15 are oriented to the dawn of the summer solstice and 5 to the dawn of the winter solstice.
The Barranco de Los Gomeros is one of the most outstanding natural areas of the town of Tijarafe and without a doubt one of the most interesting on the island of La Palma. The area of the ravine is declared Well of Cultural Interest and has an important archaeological site cataloged by the experts as one of the most outstanding of La Palma.
The Archaeological Zone of the Barranco de los Gomeros offers a large number of caves that served so that the first settlers could take refuge. The most important part of the deposit is in the middle section of the Barranco de Los Gomeros where are the 39 natural caves of habitation. In three of them, human remains have been found, which indicates that some of these caves served as burial sites.
In the caves we have also found fragments of ceramics, lithic pieces of gray basalt, porous basalt, vitreous basalt among others.
Animal remains have also been found, which indicates that these caves were also used for cattle ranching, as well as limpets, burges and fish remains, which indicates that they used the resources offered by the sea.
The Archaeological Site of Barranco de Los Gomeros is undoubtedly one of the most important places in Tijarafe.