It is a space that has an important station of rock engravings, as well as different deposits of a residential or pastoral nature, it is explained in the agreement of the Council of the Government of the Canary Islands.
In the Llanos de Ifara there are 24 identified sites within which there are 38 panels of rock manifestations, which makes it an area of great importance from the aboriginal archaeological perspective, the agreement adds.
Five basic categories can be seen in it: dispersions of archaeological material on the surface, hut bottoms, huts, rock manifestations and sepulchral caves.
Seen as an archaeological site, it is very representative of the characteristic surface settlement of the south of Tenerife and its socio-economic organization.
Thus, adds the regional executive, there are deposits linked to economic production such as habitat areas, represented by huts and hut bottoms, with dispersions of archaeological material on the surface.
There are also other sites linked to the socio-cultural sphere, such as the sepulchral caves and the stations of rock manifestations.
Its values include the set of open artificial caves on the southwest slope of the Montaña de los Riscos -with the presence of diverse archaeological material on the surface-, the complex of dry stone huts located in the vicinity of the rock station or isolated structures in dry stone and caves with documented exterior walls in the eastern sector of the proposed area.
To the north of the space there is also a cave complex made up of bowls and channels carved on pumice, while abundant archaeological material can be seen on the surface spread over extensive areas included in the delimitation.
In addition, the existence of several cores of artificial caves excavated in the pumitic tuff deposits – occupied during the tomato exploitation phase of these sub-coastal sectors until the last decades of the 20th century – are noted, and which stand out for their ethnographic interest.
In some cases, they are buried constructions, with various excavated rooms, an era and a cistern.
The proposed delimitation for this archaeological zone is due to the need to establish an area of protection that guarantees the conservation of the archaeological sites and elements of ethnographic interest that they house.
As they are cave enclaves with a chronological ascription that starts from the prehistoric period until dates after the conquest of the island, it is essential to keep the natural environment of the sites intact, not only to achieve visual perception, but to preserve the physical environment -natural in whose context the territory was occupied.
