The ethnographic rescue activity called “Al Paso de la Cumbre” returned after a two-year hiatus with the staging of the old barter system that was carried out on the roads and paths of the island until the middle of the 20th century.
In the activity that was organized by the City Council of Santiago del Teide, the City Councils of El Tanque and Garachico, the Tenerife Rural Foundation and the Cabildo de Tenerife collaborated.
It is an ethnographic rescue activity that has its raison d’être in homage to the Canarian generations that traveled the paths and paths of the archipelago in search of family sustenance.
About 100 people from different parts of the island of Tenerife participated, dressed in the typical clothing of the time and carrying the utensils, tools, materials, etc. that were used to carry out all this work of exchange between them, the Cultural Association Uzapa Mountaineers; the Dance Workshops of Santiago del Teide as well as neighbors of San Juan de La Rambla, Parranda del Ron of the EMF de Arona, etc.
One of the objectives of this initiative is to revalue the products that were part of the exchange system, influencing the social relations that were established as a result of these commercial transactions. Like every edition there were 3 staging areas: San Francisco de La Montañeta, San José de Los Llanos and, finally, the Plaza de Santiago del Teide.
After the last staging in the Plaza de Santiago del Teide, the activity ended with a performance by the group “Timcua” and a great lunch for the participants of said activity.
