Menceyato of Güímar

It controlled an area significantly greater than the actual municipality of Güímar, including part of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and San Cristóbal de La Laguna, El Rosario, Candelaria, Arafo and Fasnia, himself and perhaps a small part of the town of Arico.

Güímar was the site of the appearance of the image of the Virgin of Candelaria (patroness of the Canary Islands).

Around 1450 a hermitage formed by three friars led by Alfonso de Bolaños, considered the "Apostle of Tenerife," was founded in the area of the modern city of Candelaria.

It is believed that the first mencey of Güímar could have been Acaymo, later succeeded by his son Añaterve.

The latter would reign at the time of the conquest of Tenerife by Alonso Fernandez de Lugo.