Guiniguada Ravine Trail

The Guiniguada Ravine trail leads, along a 7.5-kilometre route, from the historic centre of the city to the Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo.

This pedestrian and cycling path, three metres wide, starts at the Hermitage of San Nicolás de Bari, passes through El Pambaso—an agricultural plain located between the neighbourhoods of San Nicolás and San Roque—and follows the ravine that gave life to the city for centuries. Until the 1970s, the city’s water supply came from Fuente Morales, a spring located approximately six kilometres upstream along the Guiniguada.

The walk to the Jardín Canario, which takes around two hours, runs between banana plantations and fruit orchards, houses and animal pens, a group of prehispanic artificial caves, and abandoned historic infrastructures—such as water mills, irrigation channels, rock-cut conduits, agricultural terraces and traditional manor houses—which bear witness to the historical, cultural and economic richness of the Guiniguada.

The ravine is also notable for its vegetation, with more than 20,000 specimens from 160 species distributed along the route.