Puertito de Güímar Master Plan is a planning, recovery and development project whose execution will begin with 850,000 euros provided by the Council through the Tourism area, managed by Vice President Lope Afonso (PP). It will mark the beginning of a profound change in this Güimara town that seeks to “increase the spatial and environmental quality of the promenade that runs along the coastal edge, enhance the direct perception of the coast, access to the promenade and resting places from which to be able to contemplate the sea”, according to Afonso’s own definition.
This phase of the project will consist of the remodeling of 75 meters of the coastal front of Puertito de Güímar, with work to be carried out on an area of 1,720 square meters around El Cabezo beach. Concrete, stone and stainless steel pavement will be used, materials suitable for a marine environment. The endemic vegetation will be the protagonist in the gardens that will be created with this intervention.
In this section of the promenade, two buildings with garden roofs will be built, one for toilets and changing rooms and the other for a kiosk-cafeteria, which will have a covered terrace. An outdoor sports area with soft pavement, surrounded by a basalt rockery and trees adapted to the place for outdoor activities (gymnastics, dance, yoga, etc.). A large pergola that will provide the place with shaded areas.
What will be done.
The Puertito de Güímar coastal front project. Phase 1 represents the first step of a set of actions to be carried out on the 2.5 kilometers of coastline that separates Las Bajas, on the southern edge of Puertito, from Malpaís de Güímar, on the northern side. At the point on the coast located at the height of the Southern Highway tunnel, this project contemplates the conditioning of the access to Las Bajas beach, then entering into the channeling of the ravine next to the Nautical Club and the redesign of the space public with a new plaza and a park facing the sea, providing sports solutions and a dog area.
The planned work continues with a transit area between the urban and the natural that will be provided with new accesses, steps facing the sea and accessible ramps. At this point is where the work already announced by the insular vice president Lope Afonso will begin, the section that will be one of the main protagonists of the Master Plan, with a large plaza that will join the new and old El Puertito, an enclosure that will house spaces for leisure , culture and sport.
Starting from the Cabezo.
The walk between the Pescadores neighborhood and La Charcada will also change with a new design that will relocate the fishermen’s huts to a more suitable environment, “respecting the weight that the activity has had in the neighborhood’s culture,” according to Lope Afonso.
Around the Puertito de Güímar dock, the beautification of the area and its organization are planned, in the search for a space to enjoy more resources such as swimming pools, flats, straws and the dock of the dock, already existing resources.
In the final section, the urban walk prior to Malpaís de Güímar will become a constant overview of what the visitor will find in the Special Natural Reserve, using the gardens and pavements for it.
Lots of social involvement.
The work prior to the development of the project is one of the aspects that the vice president of the Tenerife Cabildo, Lope Afonso, highlighted when he announced the first investment in this work: «The initiative was born from the population, where more than 250 people actively participated. in the creation of this project that aims to improve Puertito de Güímar. They were interviews and conversations with people linked to the town, deeply knowledgeable about its reality.
The mayor of Güímar, Gustavo Pérez (CC), expressed his gratitude for the interest shown by Lope Afonso in this project – it is included in the program Tenerife and the sea, of the Strategic Framework for Island Development (MEDI)-Development Fund Canary Islands (Fdcan) – and maintained that “studies indicate that El Puertito can accommodate 5,000 people enjoying the beach at the same time and walking along the coastline. It is clear that we are in a strategic place for the Island and, therefore, we must value it. Along these lines, he highlighted that “the Master Plan is a contribution to improving the quality of life for the population of the place and of all of Güímar.”
