Icod de los Vinos

Icod de los Vinos municipality
	Iglesia de San Marcos
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Canary Islands
Province :	Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Island:	Tenerife
Coordinates	28 ° 22 ′ N , 16 ° 43 ′ W Coordinates: 28 ° 22 ′ N , 16 ° 43 ′ W
Height :	235 msnm
Area :	95.92 km²
Residents :	23,254 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	242.43 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	E-38430
Municipality number ( INE ):	38022
administration
Mayor :	Francisco Javier González Díaz ( CC ) (as of 2020)
Address of the municipal administration:	Plaza Luis de Leon Huertas, 1 ; 38430 Icod de los Vinos
Website :	www.icoddelosvinos.es
Location of the municipality

Icod de los Vinos is a municipality in the northwest of the Canary Island of Tenerife with 23,254 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019).

geography

Geographical location

Icod de los Vinos is located 56 kilometers west-southwest of the island's capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife . Neighboring municipalities are La Guancha in the east, La Orotava in the southeast, Santiago del Teide and Guía de Isora in the south and Garachico in the west.

The municipality of Icod de los Vinos has an area of 95.9 km² at an average altitude of 235 m above sea level.

Community structure

Districts of Icod de los Vinos

The municipality of Icod de los Vinos consists of twelve districts:

Buen Paso (with Hoya Ana Diaz)
Cueva del Viento (with La Candelaria, La Patita, Lomo Las Lajas, Los Piquetes and Pedregal)
El Amparo
Fuente la Vega (with Cruz del Camino and Las Abiertas)
La Florida
La Mancha
La Vega (with El Molledo and Mirabal Alto)
Las Cañas
Icod de los Vinos
San Felipe
San Marcos
Santa Bárbara (with Llanito Perera and Penichet)

history

Icod de los Vinos was founded by conquistadors in 1496 after the entire island had been completely conquered by the Spanish the previous year. The name derives from Icod , a former tribal area of the Guanches in the area of today's place. The addition "de los Vinos", which emerged from the sixteenth century and differentiates the place from Icod el Alto , comes from the viticulture in the area around Icod in the wine-growing region of Ycoden-Daute-Isora , which began when the place was founded. Due to the favorable natural conditions, the valley of Icod was used for agriculture from the beginning. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the place grew and the most important buildings and churches appeared. In 1676 Icod de los Vinos had about 3000 inhabitants. In 1812 the place was named the capital of the Daute district, which was also decided by the Spanish King Fernando VII in 1826 and finally established in 1833. Since the 20th century, Icod de los Vinos has had the wine, which has been important since the village was founded, and the famous dragon tree Drago Milenario in its coat of arms.

Attractions

In Icod de los Vinos there is the Drago Milenario , the most famous dragon tree , at least in the Canary Islands. Until recently it was believed to be around 3,000 years old, but according to more recent findings, its age is estimated to be around 400 years. Nearby is the Mariposario del Drago butterfly house .

Dragon tree Drago Milenario in Icod de los Vinos

Above the park with the dragon tree is the Iglesia de San Marcos , which was built in the 16th century. The church, which has been enlarged several times, has a remarkable Renaissance portal. The church ceiling made of Tea , the heartwood of the Canarian pine , was drawn in in the 16th century. The baroque altar is decorated with silver ornaments. The filigree silver cross comes from Cuba .

In the district of Santa Bárbara there is the ARTlandya doll museum for character dolls from 42 different internationally known doll artists. In addition, there is a teddy exhibition by various teddy designers. The museum is located in old renovated Canarian stone houses on a finca with a tropical garden.

The Cueva del Viento is one of the longest lava caves in the world.

In the district of San Marcos is the Playa de San Marcos , a beach made of black volcanic sand.

Playa de San Marcos

traffic

Icod de los Vinos is connected to Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Puerto de la Cruz via the TF-5 road from Los Realejos, which has been developed as a northern motorway . The TF-5 continues in a southerly direction to El Tanque , over the pass of Erjos you can reach the southern motorway TF-1 at Santiago del Teide from El Tanque . In Icod there is a bus station ( Estacion de guaguas de Icod de los Vinos ).

Population development

year	Residents
1860	5,414
1900	7,282
1930	12,124
1960	18,019
1970	24,949
1990	22,449
2000	19,977
2005	24,290
2010	24,231
2014	22,913
2016	22.606

politics

Since 1979 the municipality has been administered by democratically elected mayors.

year	mayor	Political party
1979-1983	Carmelo Méndez Quintero	Asamblea icodense (AI)
1983-1991	Carmelo Méndez Quintero	Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE)
1991-2007	Juan José Dorta Álvarez	Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE)
2007-2011	Diego Afonso Guillermo	Coalición Canaria (CC)
2011-2015	Juan José Dorta Álvarez	Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE)
2015-2017	Francisco Javier González Díaz	Coalición Canaria (CC)
2017-2019	José Ramón León	Somos Icodenses (IC)
since 2019	Francisco Javier González Díaz	Coalición Canaria (CC)

In 2007, the CC mayor was elected under an agreement with the PP.

At the end of 2016, former mayor Juan José Dorta Álvarez (PSOE) was sentenced to one year probation for multiple abuse of office from 2003 to 2007, as was eight of his former city councilors.

On August 17, 2017, the mayor Francisco Javier González Díaz (CC) was voted out of office by the local council by motion of no confidence. Through a cooperation with the Ciudadanos , he came back to the office in 2019.