The Municipal Archive of La Orotava is the only one in the Canary Islands to receive oral sources as a document, as they are also very relevant and necessary sources to preserve and protect local history and heritage.
This was confirmed yesterday by the delegate councilor of the Municipal Archives, Delia Escobar, who presented the data from last year’s memory of the center, accompanied by the mayor, Francisco Linares, and the workers Candelaria Pérez and Pedro Hernández.
Thus, he explained that the resource has 2,513 linear meters of documentation, 18,340 boxes of documents, 2,230 audiovisual documents, 4,703 administrative books, 78,991 photographs, as well as 6,165 posters and 2,574 programs and brochures. In the past year they received 11 transfers of documents, which means 183 new document boxes and 110 new administrative books, increasing the documentary collection by approximately 2,931 new documents.
As for donations, which enrich and complete the information on the history of La Orotava, 8 were received, mostly photographs. In this sense, the councilor encouraged all citizens to donate the material and documents they have to the Archive, to help continue expanding the information on the history of La Orotava.
In 2021, 763 requests for information were processed, of which 52% were made electronically, 18% by telephone, 11% in person and 2% through social networks.
The mayor stressed the importance of the Archive to safeguard and disseminate the documentary heritage of the municipality. He recalled that it is located in the old house of the FAST, and announced that the Consistory has already commissioned the Gesplan company to draft the project to move it to the site next to the old Atlante Theater, a larger building, which will have the appropriate conditions atmospheric, humidity and habitability to house a collection of 104,991 documents.
Linares calculated that it will be completed in the next semester, although it will be an action that the next municipal corporation will have to develop.
Finally, the president wanted to recognize the work of the Archive’s employees, especially that of Pedro Hernández, who will retire in June, and who highlighted the exemplary work he has been doing since 1993.
