Análisis histórico-geográfico del poblamiento en Gran Canaria

The topic of the settlement in The Canary Islands has been scantily addressed, especially from the optics of its spatial analysis. This article reflects on about the validity of Population censuses and nomenclatores as basic sources of studies. Besides, this article also analyses the peopling of Gran Canaria from a historical and geographical perspective because the historical factor is fundamental to recognized and understand its present spatial pattern. The work constitutes the initial phase of a project of general study of the population system in the Canary Islands. The study we are analyzing has the purpose of analysis the network of population centers or settlement system in the island of Gran Canaria. That is to say, neither the population, nor the settlements, but its territorial footprint. Post-agrarian stage, beginning in the middle of the 20th century and still unfinished. It is possible to carry out its study from the population and population censuses.