BARRANCO DE BALOS

Near Agüimes you will find the Lomo de los Letreros, the hill of inscriptions, located between the barrancos of Temisas and Balos. It is probably the most important set of rock inscriptions in Gran Canaria. The natural support of these Petroglyphs is a basalt massif that rises in the middle of the Barranco de Balos. It is thought that it may have been a sacred place for the Aborigines, with geometric shapes and human representations schematized as lines that may suggest the fingers of a hand.