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Before the conquest of the islands, Tenerife was divided into nine menceyatos, which was an extension of land located within a well-defined natural region. -
After the conquest, the economy was based on the commercialization of agricultural products for certain exports, such as sugar. In addition, "subsistence crops" were developed, focused on cereals and horticultural and fruit orchards.
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In the middle of the 16th century, the first post-colonial crisis occurred with the decline of the cane sugar trade due to competition from production on the lands of the American continent. This was solved with the production and export of quality wine for a century. And from the middle of the 17th century, the economic situation began to worsen until it reached levels of extreme poverty in a high percentage of the population, which was reflected in the large number of beggars and hungry people -
Adeje Fort House is a complex of fortified buildings built around 1556 to protect a sugar mill. -
This year the complex was expanded to provide greater protection to the sugar facilities, where sugar cane was worked.
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In 1811, the agricultural production of the Fort House decreased due to the exhaustion of the land and the plague of worms.
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In 1898, new export crops were introduced, such as tomatoes and bananas, due to the climate that the Canary Islands had. -
In 1902 a fire left the complex in ruins.
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In 1915, thanks to the expansion of new crops, the living conditions of the inhabitants of Adeje improved.
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At the end of the seventies, the municipality developed due to the tourist boom in which the first leisure facilities for tourists began to be built.
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In this year, the entire tourist area of the town began to be called Costa Adeje, where large hotels would be built, such as the H10 Gran Tinerfe, the Iberostar Gran El Mirador, or the Hotel Jardines de Nivaria.
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TITSA signed an agreement in 1994 with Adeje to open a bus station in Costa Adeje and operate it. This was opened in 1996. -
Siam Park is a water park, named by TripAdvisor users as the best water park in the world between 2014 and 2019.
