Fuencaliente La Palma

Fuencaliente La Palma (or simply Fuencaliente) is a municipality located in the southern part of La Palma. The capital city is called Los Canarios (also commonly called Fuencaliente).  Other villages are Las Caletas, La Fajana and the village of El Charco.
The name of the town comes from nearby medicinal hot springs; the water of which the ancient chronicles say healed skin diseases.  Previously known as Santa, the springs were located on the coast of the town, near the present Echentive beach.  They were buried by lava from the Fuencaliente volcano (commonly confused with the prehistoric volcano of San Antonio) in the seventeenth century.

Recently, the Ministry of Public Works of the Government of the Canary Islands, in collaboration with the City Council, has conducted a survey in the area and found water at 60°C.  The future aim is to set up a gallery to remove the water and to be able to take it to a spa, but the plan is still very green because it lacks funding.
The territory of the municipality has been repeatedly ravaged by volcanic eruptions; in fact, the last volcanic eruption occurring in Spain was the volcano Teneguia (1971) which is located in the Fuencaliente.  Much of the town has been protected, such as the Cumbre Vieja Natural Park, the Nature Reserve of the Fuencaliente Volcanoes, Tamanca Landscape, and Fuencaliente Salinas, a protected site of scientific interest.

The municipality’s economy is based on the cultivation of bananas, tourism, growing grapes and making wine.
It has an area of 56.42 square kilometers and a population of 1,964 inhabitants (National Institute of Statistics, January 2007).  The altitude of the capital city (The Canaries) is 750 meters above sea level and its coastline is 29.18 kilometers long.  Its size corresponds approximately to the territory it occupied in prehistoric Abenguareme Guangzhou.
Fuencaliente was formerly a barrio of the municipality of Mazo, until it was established as an independent municipality.