Arucas borders Las Palmas to the west and is part of its urban area.

The Church of San Juan Bautista is the leading architectural and social monument in the municipality.

It was built entirely in Arucas stone by local master masons, and it dates from 1909.

Apart from the wealth of the carved stone columns and column heads, there are also some beautiful stained glass windows, the works of Canary Island painter Cristobal Hernandez de Quintana, and an extraordinary carving of the Reclining Christ, by Manuel Ramos.

[6] Arucas boomed with the demand for cochineal (a beetle feeding off cactus pear, crushed to produce red dye) in the second half of the 19th century.