The Minister of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuel Miranda, yesterday chaired the session of the Executive Commission of the El Rincón Consortium, held in La Orotava, which, among other matters, addressed the forecast of accounts for 2024 , which amount to 972,000 euros, pending possible contributions from the Cabildo de Tenerife and the City Council, which are added to the 175,000 allocated by the regional Executive.
The Commission, in whose session the mayor, Francisco Linares, and the insular counselor of the Primary Sector, Valentín González, have also been present, is a body in which each of the parties that make up the Consortium are represented: Autonomous Community, Cabildo de Tenerife, La Orotava City Council, Owners Association, Neighborhood Association and Coordinator El Rincón-Ecologistas en Acción.
With yesterday’s meeting, one of the commitments acquired by the new Government and announced in the plenary session of the Canary Islands Parliament is fulfilled, which is to “reactivate this Consortium and promote actions that allow the definitive organization and promotion of this area of La Orotava ”Miranda recalled.
For his part, Francisco Linares expressed his satisfaction with the new reactivation of the Consortium since during the previous government it had practically no activity. “This call from the Executive Commission before the end of 2023 highlights the interest of the regional government in activating and recovering this important area in the north of Tenerife,” he said. In this sense, he pointed out that “it is essential to approve the budgets to be able to continue working on projects and actions necessary to improve this area of great agricultural, environmental, heritage and ethnographic value protected by Law 5/1992.”
Linares hoped that the collegiate bodies of the Consortium (Plenary and Executive Commission) will now begin an active and effective agenda of meetings to plan and ensure that this space is conserved and coexists with other activities beneficial to the environment such as sustainable agrotourism.
Since 1999, the El Rincón Consortium has been in charge of managing this space, which is the subject of the aforementioned law and a Special Plan that remains in force, dating back to 1997. In fact, according to Miranda, one of the objectives set is to “undertake “the updating of the Special Plan, for which a debate will begin next year among those who participate in its management, with the aim of having a final proposal in 2026 and definitively approving it in the last quarter of 2026 or the first of 2027.”
Manuel Miranda valued the Consortium as an example “of participation, given that it integrates different sensitivities of those who have a voice and opinion on this space, an example that we must turn into an opportunity.” Thus, he finally reiterated that the objective of the autonomous Administration is to promote the actions that are necessary to “recover this area of undeniable landscape, agricultural and environmental value in the north of Tenerife.”
