He council of Tenerife and the Arafo City Council have committed to working together to rehabilitate the Molino y Lavaderos ethnological site, declared Asset of Cultural Interest. The insular director of Territorial Planning and Historical Heritage, Isabel de Esteban, and the first deputy mayor of the Arafera municipality, Virginia Rodríguez, met to share the City Council’s heritage proposals within the line of subsidies to the town councils for the restoration of assets of cultural value included in the Insular Historical Heritage Program 2023-2027.
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The Ethnological Site of the Mill and Lavaderos de Arafo is located in the upper area of the urban area of the municipal capital, on the right bank of the Añavingo or Amance ravine. This area is part of the old Road that goes to the water, in reference to the main water supply point of Arafo: the Añavingo springs, in the riverbed of the same name. The mill is made up of two overlapping cubes of decreasing width, made of stone, with the appearance of a stepped pyramid and through which the water ran down. Part of the channeling that carried the water to the mill is also preserved, an aqueduct supported by an archway of lowered arches and originally made of basaltic stone, although it has been reinforced with rough ashlars. The annex building has also been preserved, which housed the old grinding machinery, which is currently missing and is now used as the owners’ home.
Below the mill are the laundry rooms, which have been protected by an enclosure to prevent deterioration. They have more than twenty washing basins made of masonry and arranged in two rows with a central channel that provided the water. Next, some jets are located, which have a rectangular masonry basin and several water points intended to supply the population, to which a rectangular-shaped pond is attached.
