It owes its name to the green colour of its vegetation throughout the year. The word “Farrobillo” is the diminutive of the word “Farrobo”, which made mention of a place of kleinia neriifolia plants to which the diminutive “-illo” was added to mean that they were small, which were located throughout the area.
The «Chorro del Farrobillo» was one of the most emblematic constructions which were built in Santa Úrsula since the end of the 19th century, which gives us an idea that this place at the foot of the Los Lances ravine, had already been inhabited since the beginnings of the town’s foundation (17th century).
Fuente Gonzalo
The Fuente Gonzalo area was an old Guanche “Auchón”, a Guanche village made up of a nobleman and his family who were given servants. This was one of the twelve Guanche auchones which made up the “Tagoror” of the Acentejo area, located in the Tagoro area in La Victoria de Acentejo. This institution, chaired by a “tagorero”, a relative of the chieftains in charge of the administration, was the one that handed out the land from sea to the highlands and which were located in an area suitable for habitation with nearby sources of water. Hence the importance of the spring. It is named «Gonzalo» for a possible apportionment by the “Adelantado de Tenerife”, Alonso Fernández de Lugo, to one of the people of Pedro de Maninidra, who received the Acentejo area.
Festivities in honour of Our Lady of Fátima
They began in 2003 when the residents decided to acquire the statue of the Virgin of Fátima, which was special due to the apparitions more than 100 years ago in Portugal, and with which they managed to re-instate a procession in the district after losing the procession of the Sacred Heart, which went from the Parish church to this district more than 65 years ago. (More information)
