Properties for sale in Los Silos

Local overview

Los Silos is a municipality and town in the northwestern part of the island Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. It is located on the north coast, 57 km West of the capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Its name first appears in 1509, when the agricultural activity of the region made necessary the construction of silos to store cereals. The town located at the heart of the Teno Massif, contains an extremely valuable and interesting wealth of plant and animal life. The leafy laurisilva woodlands are in stark contrast with the plains on the coast, which still hold small areas of cardones and tabaibas, furrowed by steep-sided ravines which are routes bringing together the highlands and the coast.

Among the plant formations, the most notable is the cardonal–tabaibal which occupies the lower parts of the district, practically from sea level up to the old coastal cliffs. The cliffs separate the sector of the oldest Isla Baja from the Monte Verde, a woodland with great water needs whose existence depends on additional moisture from the sea of clouds brought to the island on the Trade Winds.

The Monte del Agua is, together with the mountains of Anaga, the main representation on the island of Tenerife of the Canarian Monte Verde and is still relatively well-conserved as a result of the steepness of the terrain, furrowed by a large number of deep ravines. The forest in this terrain shelters one of the best populations of the endemic white-tailed laurel pigeon and Bolle's laurel pigeon. For these reasons, a large part of the municipal territory is included within the Canarian network of Protected Natural Spaces including the Parque Rural de Teno, Site of Special Scientific Interest and the los Acantilados de La Culata Protected Landscape.

All of this landscape is criss-crossed by footpaths delimited by dry-stone walls, which past generations for many years created and embellished even cobbling the steepest parts so as to enable animals shod with horseshoes and beasts of burden to obtain a better grip. Now, with the passage of time, these old footpaths have been recovered.

Official geography

The official INE register places Los Silos in Santa Cruz de Tenerife province under municipality code 38042. The linked structured record provides a recorded municipal area of 24.23 square kilometres and a reference coordinate of 28.3658, -16.8167. The coordinate is a municipal reference point, not a property, parcel boundary or radius from which local claims are inferred.

Settlements and local form

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 12 official population nuclei for Los Silos. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-21. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Los Silos, at a recorded elevation of approximately 105 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include San Bernardo (957 residents in the cited settlement record), Sibora (460 residents in the cited settlement record), La Caleta (451 residents in the cited settlement record), Aregume (355 residents in the cited settlement record), and Fátima (312 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.

How this guide keeps the evidence local

The data sections below keep Los Silos’ municipality evidence separate from wider province and regional comparisons. This prevents similarly named places in other provinces from being blended together. Where a municipality-level series is unavailable, the page labels the province fallback explicitly; current NLS asking inventory remains separate from completed-sale, demographic and cadastral evidence.