Fasnia is a town and a municipality in the eastern part of the Spanish island of

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, one of the

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, and part of the province of

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. The municipality extends for from the mountainous interior to the beaches on the

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. Its population is 2,873 (2013). The

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motorway passes through the municipality.

Etymology

The name of the municipality comes from that of its administrative capital, being a term of Guanche origin that also appears in the historical documentation with the Fasnea variant. As for its possible meaning, the historian Dominik Josef Wölfel relates it to the Berber word tafessena / tifesseniwin, 'step, rung of a ladder', an opinion that is also accepted by the philologist and historian Ignacio Reyes. opinión que también acepta el filólogo e historiador Ignacio Reyes.

Sites of interest

Barranco de Fasnia y Güimar ''Barranco'' (), which is Spanish for "ravine", may refer to: Places * Barranco, Belize, a village in Toledo District, Belize * Barranco, Spain, a village south of Jijona, Alicante, Spain *Barranco District, Peru *Barranco de Loba, Colombia Perso ...

, a river gorge, and a natural monument.

References

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