Beneharo was a Guanche king of

Menceyato de Anaga Anaga was one of the 9 menceyatos guanches (native kingdoms) in which was divided the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) before the arrival of the conquering Spaniards. The area of the menceyato is now part of the municipalities of Sant ...

on the island of

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Beneharo made peace in 1492 with Lope de Salazar, who had been sent by the governor of Gran Canaria

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. After a slave raid shortly after against the Guanches of Anaga, the mencey withdrew its support to the

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although after the landing of Alonso Fernández de Lugo renewed the peace with the

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. A bronze statue of Beneharo is located in Candelaria with the other menceyes Guanches of Tenerife.

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Notes

* José Juan Acosta; Félix Rodríguez Lorenzo; Carmelo L. Quintero Padrón, ''Conquista y Colonización'' (Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Centro de la Cultura Popular Canaria, 1988), p. 51-2. *
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