Tinerfe
Tinerfe "the Great", legendary hero who was a guanche mencey of the island of Tenerife. It is estimated that he lived at the end of the 14th century.
He was the son of mencey Sunta, who ruled the island in the days before the conquest of the Canary Islands by Castile. Tinerfe the Great lived in Adeje, approximately hundred years before the conquest of 1494.
Upon Tinerfe's death, his sons divided the island into nine kingdoms. At the time of the conquest the kings of these kingdoms were:
- Acaimo or Acaymo.
- Adjona:.
- Añaterve:.
- Bencomo:.
- Beneharo:.
- Pelicar:.
- Pelinor:.
- Romen:.
- Tegueste:.
In the toponymy of the island
The eighteenth-century historians Juan Núñez de la Peña and Tomás Arias Marín de Cubas, among others, state that the name of the island of Tenerife could come from Tinerfe.
