Hermigua pier. La Gomera Island.
by Guido Montanes Castillo
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Hermigua pier. La Gomera Island.
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Guido Montanes Castillo
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Hermigua pier. La Gomera Island.
The area of El Peñón on the coast of Hermigua has been an indispensable part in the economic, agricultural, social, demographic and industrial development of the municipality. At the end of the 19th century the agricultural production of La Gomera changes again, it goes from non-perishable products, easily storable such as cochineal, to other perishables such as bananas and tomatoes. These products need to be transported quickly to the receiving markets in Europe, so as not to lose quality or quantity. By this time, both Hermigua and the rest of the agricultural areas of northern La Gomera are connected to each other and abroad by roads on steep terrain where goods carried by people and animals and small piers in a rough sea were traveling for which it was unfeasible to give way to all agricultural production.
Thus, thanks to this need for rapid communications and the technology of the Industrial Revolution, in the municipalities of the north of La Gomera: Hermigua, Agulo and Vallehermoso, the construction of davits to enter and exit goods and people by sea is undertaken. These structures were built using stone and mortar for the prisms, an iron arm that, supported on one or several prisms, was over the sea where a ship could anchor to be stowed and a steam engine that was responsible for giving the necessary power to raise and lower people, goods and animals. There was also a warehouse and offices to manage the transit of goods and a transporter that carried goods from the packaging workshops to the davit's warehouse.
La Gomera (pronounced [la ɣoˈmeɾa]) is one of Spain's Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. With an area of 370 square kilometres (140 sq mi), it is the second smallest of the seven main islands of this archipelago. It belongs to the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. La Gomera is the second least populous main island with 21,136 inhabitants.[2] Its capital is San Sebastián de La Gomera, where the cabildo insular (island council) is located.
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