Old Banana Pier

While the export of bananas and tomatoes provided an impressive share of Tenerife’s income, it was the goods that were loaded onto ships, the lion’s share of which headed for the UK. Canary Wharf in London, or the port that mainly served ships from the Canary Islands, is today a local Manhattan, full of bank and business buildings.

This construction, after the eruption of 1706, preserves the original cobbled pavement, as well as profuse basalt stone masonry. It has a limited area for fishing boats, and machinery and cranes to raise and lower the fishing boats. It has a fenced area for fishing boats. The Tensei Tenmoku sculpture located at the end of the dam stands out, being able to see, through it, a curious print of the "Roque". Nearby are still the old banana packing warehouses with the old box for shipping the fruit, which have become an important hallmark of the Garachico coastline. The port of Garachico was conditioned during the reign of Felipe II. From here the ships with sugar and the famous Malmsey wine left for the ports of the New World, Great Britain, Flanders, Angola and returned with products of considerable esteem, such as oriental spices, slaves from Africa, English cloth, Flemish works of art and various manufactured products like jewelry, oils, leather. As a result of this commercial and social development, Garachico became a prosperous town. But, the great blow that caused the total bankruptcy of the economy was the volcanic eruption of 1706 , whose lava, thrown from the peaks of the municipality, descended the steep cliffs, forever burying the beautiful bay that was reduced to the small roadstead that see today.