Mundo Aborigen

Mundo Aborigen is an open-air museum in Gran Canaria, Spain, featuring over 100 life-size figures depicting daily life of the ancient Canarian inhabitants, set in the Fataga Valley.

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Mundo Aborigen presents pre-conquest Canarian life through over 100 life-size figures arranged in reconstructed settlements across a hillside in the Fataga valley — houses, granaries, a burial site, scenes of grinding grain, tanning hides, judging disputes and performing rituals.

The Indigenous people of Gran Canaria, sometimes called Canarii and related to the Guanches of Tenerife, were Berber in origin. They farmed, kept goats, made pottery without the wheel, and had no boats capable of moving between islands, which left each island's population isolated for centuries before the Castilian conquest ended their society.

The open-air format works because it places the reconstructions in the actual landscape, with the Fataga ravine below — the terrain that shaped how these communities lived.

The presentation is dated in places but the setting compensates. The road down from Fataga to Maspalomas is spectacular. Allow ninety minutes. The main booking is an entry ticket. Current availability is shown below.