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Fasnia
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| official_name | Fasnia |
| settlement_type | Municipality |
| image_skyline | Tenerife - Fasnia - church 03.jpg |
| image_caption | Old church in Fasnia |
| image_flag | Bandera_de_Fasnia_(Con_Escudo).svg |
| image_shield | Escudo_de_Fasnia.svg |
| image_map | Tenerife municipio Fasnia.svg |
| map_caption | Municipal location in Tenerife |
| pushpin_map | Spain Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife#Canary Islands#Spain with Canary Islands |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Spain |
| subdivision_type1 | Autonomous Region |
| subdivision_name1 | Canary Islands |
| subdivision_type2 | Province |
| subdivision_name2 | Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
| subdivision_type3 | Island |
| subdivision_name3 | Tenerife |
| leader_title | Mayor |
| area_total_km2 | 45.11 |
| population_as_of | |
| population_footnotes | |
| population_total | |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| timezone | GMT |
| utc_offset | +0 |
| coordinates | |
| postal_code_type | Post Code |
| postal_code | 38570 |
| blank_name | Climate |
| blank_info | Csa |
| website |
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 km2 from the mountainous interior to the beaches on the Atlantic. Its population is 2,873 (2013). The TF-1 motorway passes through the municipality.
Etymology
The 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.
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
- Barranco de Fasnia y Güimar, a river gorge, and a natural monument.
References
References
- Trapero, Maximiano. (2018). "Diccionario de Toponimia de Canarias: Los guanchismos". IDEA.
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