ECONOMY GROUP 26TH APRIL

In the village called Tunte situated at mid-altitude in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana a new sustainable type of tourism, so called rural tourism, as emerged with the main idea of multi-functionality. There have been using a large, reconstructed, old building. It represents a contrast to the mass tourism developed and still developing at the south coastal area.

There have been planning a new energy project, called “the hydroelectric leap" between the dams Chira and Soria in which they would use wind energy for pumping the desalinized water to the dams, where it would be transformed to hydro-energy. With this project they will try to achieve energy self-sufficiency for the island. The project does not have all the support because of the questions of the infrastructure expanses, due to the distance and the change in the altitude between the two dams.