Fasnia is a town and a municipality in the eastern part of the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The municipality extends for 45.1 square kilometers (17.4 sq mi) from the mountainous interior to the beaches on the Atlantic. Its population is 2,873 (2013). The TF-1 motorway passes through the municipality.
Fasnia | |
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 Old church in Fasnia | |
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 Municipal location in Tenerife | |
  Fasnia Location in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife  Fasnia Fasnia (Canary Islands)  Fasnia Fasnia (Spain, Canary Islands) | |
| Coordinates: 28°14′N 16°26′W / 28.233°N 16.433°W | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Autonomous Region | Canary Islands |
| Province | Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
| Island | Tenerife |
| Area | |
• Total | 45.11 km2 (17.42 sq mi) |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
• Total | 2,768 |
| • Density | 61/km2 (160/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
| Post Code | 38570 |
| Climate | Csa |
| Website | www |
Etymology
editThe name of the municipality comes from that of its administrative capital, being a term of Guanche origin that also appears in the historical documentation with the Fasnea variant.[2]
As for its possible meaning, the historian Dominik Josef Wölfel relates it to the Berber word tafessena / tifesseniwin, 'step, rung of a ladder', an opinion that is also accepted by the philologist and historian Ignacio Reyes.
Sites of interest
edit- Barranco de Fasnia y Güimar, a river gorge, and a natural monument.
References
edit- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ Trapero, Maximiano (2018). Diccionario de Toponimia de Canarias: Los guanchismos. Santa Cruz de Tenerife: IDEA. ISBN 978-84-17-36009-2.
