The salt of Tenefé already have a new manager.

The City Council intends to create new salt workers' positions with the students of a workshop school.

The City Council of Santa Lucía yesterday signed an agreement with the company specialized in salt extraction Balriegos Canarias SLL by which it grants the conservation, exploitation and educational use of the Salinas de Tenefé for a period of 10 years and will allow employment for young salineros trained at the Salinas Environmental Rehabilitation Workshop School.

The Salt Flats of Tenefé, declared Asset of Cultural Interest in the category of Ethnological Site and that have an Interpretation Center, They respond to the type of old clay salt mines that were built at the end of the 18th century and constitute one of the vestiges of what was the great salt emporium of this municipality..

The accidental mayor and councilor for Historical Heritage, Francisco García, ensures: “With the signing of this agreement, the Santa Lucía City Council achieves two objectives, on the one hand, to value this Asset of Cultural Interest while maintaining the activity in a traditional way, and on the other, very important for us, create new jobs with specialized people who have been trained in this trade through the Environmental Rehabilitation Workshop School of the Salinas de Tenefé, a training and employment program aimed at those over 25 years that was taught in this natural space”.

García states that “Some of those young people trained in the trade will have coverage within this agreement, since the workers who are going to be hired for the exploitation of the salt mines are going to be people trained in that workshop school”.

On the other hand, Juan Lozano, representative of the Balriego company, designates: “This agreement includes the exploitation of the salt mines, but also the cultural maintenance of this ethnographic asset. In addition to marketing salt, We will welcome tourist and school visits to show this ethnographic value that we must preserve”.

Lozano emphasizes that “there is business, and in these difficult times we have to be grateful that they give you the possibility of being able to exploit something that allows you to generate economy”, and adds that “of the 66 There are only five salt mines in the Canary Islands and the largest are in Santa Lucía.”.