Breña Alta, Santa Cruz de Tenerife property and area FAQs

Breña Alta (Spanish for Upper Breña) is a municipality on the eastern side of the island of La Palma, in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. The ayuntamiento (municipal office) is in the town of San Pedro, at 350 m above sea-level, and only 9 km south of the island's capital Santa Cruz de la Palma . Breña Alta lies on the main highway encircling the island, just north of La Palma Airport. Until the 17th century the area was known as Breña, but was then divided into Breña Alta and Breña Baja.

Breña Alta’s current IGN settlement record contains 9 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-21. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is San Pedro, at a recorded elevation of approximately 344 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include La Caldereta (399 residents in the cited settlement record), El Porvenir (294 residents in the cited settlement record), La Grama (257 residents in the cited settlement record), El Llanito (217 residents in the cited settlement record), and La Cuesta (166 residents in the cited settlement record). Nomenclátor entries describe settlement geography; they are not listing totals, neighbourhood boundaries or evidence of homes currently available for sale.

Breña Alta has a fishing port, an artificial beach at Bajamar, and an industrial area. The municipality is known for its tobacco production. There is a 100-year-old dracaena tree near San Isidro. There is also a zoo called Maroparque.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 30.8 square kilometres for Breña Alta municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 38008 and keeps the province label Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

The audited municipality record contains 10 additional named-place records for Breña Alta municipality. This count describes geographic records, not neighbourhood boundaries or properties for sale.

Yes. The structured municipality record includes an official website field. NLS treats that as identity context and not as property-market evidence.

Dividing the INE population of 7,318 by the recorded municipal area of 30.8 km² gives approximately 237.4 residents per km² for Breña Alta municipality. This is a transparent calculation from the two cited values.

The stated official-data scope is Breña Alta municipality. Current NLS listings use the property-search area itself, while official market and demographic measures keep their own published geography visible.

Breña Alta is treated as an official municipality. The page is joined to institutional datasets by its five-digit INE identity, not by a loose name match.

The latest imported INE population for Breña Alta municipality is 7,318, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Breña Alta municipality, recorded population changed by 4.8%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Breña Alta municipality is €15,396 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 44.9 years for Breña Alta municipality, for period 2023.

The population figure uses INE period 2023. The page shows the period beside the value so it is not mistaken for a live counter.

INE records 19.7% of residents aged 65 or over for Breña Alta municipality, in period 2023.

The imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 7.8% for Breña Alta municipality, in period 2023.

The latest imported INE figure is 2.60 people per household for Breña Alta municipality, for period 2023.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for Breña Alta municipality changed by 4.8%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The displayed series for Breña Alta municipality begins at 6,983 residents in 2015. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Breña Alta municipality records €1,621 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 29.3% for Canarias in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

The displayed series for Canarias begins at 27.3% in 2024Q3. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Canarias, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 30.0% in 2025Q2.

INE reports a house-price index of 110.4 for Canarias in 2026Q2. An index is not a euro price per square metre.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Santa Cruz de Tenerife province, the highest registered sale-price benchmark value is €2,807 per m² in 2026Q2.

Within the 12 displayed observations for Breña Alta municipality, the highest quarterly transaction count value is 15 transactions in 2024Q4.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 12 displayed quarterly transaction count observations for Breña Alta municipality is 8 transactions. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The price-informed transactions in the Notariado snapshot have an average recorded surface of 131 m² for Breña Alta municipality.

The page displays 12 quarterly MITMA observations for Breña Alta municipality, up to the latest published period in the chart.

Dirección General del Catastro records 2,799 buildings for Breña Alta municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 3,190 dwellings for Breña Alta municipality. It should not be read as current sale inventory.

Across buildings with a recorded construction year, the Catastro extract gives an average year of 1,968 for Breña Alta municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 363 energy certificates for Breña Alta municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The Catastro extract records 3,190 dwellings across 2,799 buildings for Breña Alta municipality, or approximately 1.14 dwellings per recorded building.

The Before 1950 band contains 633 recorded buildings for Breña Alta municipality, representing 22.7% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1970–1989, with 815 buildings, or 29.3% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The 1950–1969 band contains 504 recorded buildings for Breña Alta municipality, representing 18.1% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 2010 onward band contains 79 recorded buildings for Breña Alta municipality, representing 2.8% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The current eligible public inventory contains 0 listings for Breña Alta. The count excludes sold, withdrawn, expired, rejected, draft, private, off-market and feed-private records.