Guanche people

desiccated corpses of the indigenous people of Tenerife

thumb|Statue of Tinerfe (Adeje, [[Tenerife)]] Tinerfe "the Great" is a legendary hero who was a guanche mencey (aboriginal king) of the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). It is estimated that he lived at the end of the 14th century.

thumb|200px|Bronze statue of Beneharo (Candelaria, Tenerife). Beneharo was a Guanche king of Menceyato de Anaga on the island of Tenerife.

thumb|Statue of Bencomo at Candelaria, Tenerife Bencomo (; 1438 – 1495) was the penultimate mencey or king of Taoro, a Guanche menceyato on the island of Tenerife. He fought in the First Battle of Acentejo, a victory for the Guanches against the invading Castilians, after having refused the terms of Alonso Fernández de Lugo. He may have perished on the heights of San Roque during the Battle of Aguere alongside his brother Tinguaro.

thumb|250px|Statue of Añaterve in Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias, Candelaria, [[Tenerife.]] Añaterve was the Guanche Mencey (king) of Menceyato de Güímar at the time of the conquest of Tenerife in the 15th century.

Guanche mummy

Adjona, also written Adxoña or Atxoña, was the Guanche mencey (king) of the Menceyato de Abona at the time of the conquest of Tenerife in the fifteenth century.

Acaimo or Acaymo was a Guanche mencey of Tacoronte, on the island of Tenerife at the time of the Spanish conquest in the 15th century. He formed an alliance against the Spaniards with the mencey Beneharo and the mencey Bencomo.

15th-century Guanche king

Guanche mencey king of Menceyato de Daute (15th c.)

Spanish politician

Spanish politician

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right|thumb|The nine menceyatos before the Spanish conquest of Tenerife. Bentor ( 1463 – February 1495), sometimes also called Ventor, Bentore, Benytomo, or Bentorey, was the last mencey or king of Taoro from November 1494 until his suicide in February 1495. A native Guanche prince in the Canary Islands during the second half of the 15th century, Bentor was the eldest grandson (in some sources, son) of Bencomo, the penultimate mencey (or king) of Taoro. Taoro was one of nine menceyatos, or kingdoms, on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands before the Spanish conquest of the island

Gauche

Princess Dácil was a Guanche princess of the kingdom of Taoro on the island of Tenerife (in the Canary Islands), best known for her marriage to a conqueror of the island.

Tinguaro (died December 1495, in La Laguna) was a Guanche sigoñe () of Tenerife, also known as Chimechia and Achimenchia Tinguaro.

figure in the Antigüedades de las Islas Afortunadas

Guacimara is the name of a strong warrior Guanche woman, daughter of the king or Mencey of the Menceyato of Anaga in the Canary Islands, at a time prior to the arrival of the European conquerors at the end of the XV century.

Ichasagua was a Guanche leader of the island of Tenerife. He was a member of the Guanche nobility of Adeje.

thumb|right|Statue of Tanausú by Manuel Pereda de Castro in Los Llanos de Aridane thumb|right|A plaque describing Tanausú at the Tanausú viewpoint in La Palma

Guañameñe or Guadameñe was the name of a Guanche fortune-teller who had prophesied the arrival of the Castilian conquerors to the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) at the end of the fifteenth century. Subsequently, the word Guañameñe was extended to denominate the highest priestly rank of the Guanche society.