Can you imagine what it's like to rain for 35 hours straight? In mid-February 1956, in Las Palmas there was a sun that cracked the stones, in Tirajana it was pouring and in Agüimes it was raining for those 35 hours straight. Three days before, the residents of the Tirajana Valley were desalinated. The ground moved and displaced as much surface area as 15 football fields. 33 houses destroyed with 300 people, which denoted the large families of that time. The deluge was of such caliber that in Rosiana it affected those volumes of rain that fell on the northeastern summit with values greater than 700 mm. However, the greatest damage was concentrated in its southern area. In Santa Lucía, a surface area the size of 15 football fields moved, causing significant damage to homes and crop land in the Morisco and Rosiana payments, where rainfall totaled between 281,3 mm in Santa Lucía and 428,1 mm. mm in Taidía. According to the data from 'Spatial analysis of storms in Gran Canaria in the 50s' by Pablo Máyer Suárez, Lidia Romero and Luis Hernández Calvento, on February 15, 1956, rains were generated that registered 26 liters per meter in Gando (Gran Canaria ). The affected families were transferred to Santa Lucía and housed in private homes. The Morisco neighborhood was the first in which these landslides were recorded, due to which almost all of its houses have been destroyed.


