Yacimiento Arqueológico Las Crucecitas

Mogán has some important archaeological sites, one of which is known as Las Crucecitas. Las Crucecitas is a pre-Hispanic site which is located at the mouth of a ravine where domestic areas and funerary spaces integrated into the same territory coincide. The site is an old indigenous town where you can walk and which has the name of Barranquillo Lomo Los Gatos, this is connected to two necropolises called La Puntilla and another with the name of Las Crucecitas.

All these archaeological remains show that the city of Mogán was inhabited before the conquest. The site of the Crucecitas is a pre-Hispanic cemetery placed on the hillside and formed by tombs in caves and stone funerary constructions.

These funeral constructions are arranged in a staggered way, offered in different types according to their situation. In one of them burials are given in pits surrounded by a ring of stones, on the other hand there are others of quadrangular form, at the moment 17 funeral constructions are conserved whose archaeological excavation has allowed to document skeletal remains of up to 14 old settlers. The archaeological site throws a lot of light on the custom of the first ancestors that inhabited the area of Mogán.