Breña Alta

Breña Alta municipality
coat of arms	Map of the Canary Islands
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Canary Islands
Province :	Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Coordinates	28 ° 38 ′  N , 17 ° 46 ′  W Coordinates: 28 ° 38 ′  N , 17 ° 46 ′  W
Height :	350  msnm
Area :	30.82 km²
Residents :	7,204 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	233.74 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	38710
Municipality number  ( INE ):	38008
administration
Mayor :	Jonathan de Felipe Lorenzo (CC-PNC)
Address of the municipal administration:	Calle Blas Pérez González, 1
Website :	www.balta.org
Location of the municipality

Breña Alta (full name: Villa de Breña Alta ) is one of the 14 communities on the Canary Island of La Palma . The administrative seat of the municipality is San Pedro de Breña Alta .

Places of the community

The population figures in brackets are from 2013.

• San Pedro de Breña Alta (2,836)
• El Llanito (666)
• Miranda (751)
• La Cuesta (703)
• Buenavista de Arriba (550)
• Breña (540)
• Buenavista de Abajo (583)
• Las Ledas (442)
• Botazo (384)

Population development

year population change 1900 2,589 1910 2,863 + 274 1920 3,078 + 215 1930 3,437 + 359 1940 3,843 + 406 1950 4,049 + 206 1960 4,762 + 713

year population change 1970 4,290 - 472 1981 4,792 + 502 1990 5,467 + 675 2000 5,898 + 431 2005 7,039 + 1,141 2013 7,455 + 416

General

The municipality of Breña Alta gained independence in 1634. Breña Alta and Breña Baja are preferred places to live in La Palma's capitals , with pretty houses and well-tended gardens dominating the scene. The community still lives mainly from agriculture at an average altitude of 400 meters.

In San Pedro de Breña Baja is a center of the cigar manufacture. A large part of the thick puros (the pure ones ) consumed on the island are rolled here in small workshops . The tobacco used for this is grown in the area. The handcrafted Palmerian puros were also preferred by Winston Churchill .

The dragon trees, some of which are several hundred years old, are located near San Isidro .

El Císter Monastery

The Cistercian monastery of Santísima Trinidad (also known as Monasterio El Císter ) is located in Breña Alta .

Sons and daughters

• Bernardo Álvarez Afonso (* 1949), Catholic bishop

Web links

Commons : Breña Alta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
2. ↑ INEbase (database of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística)