Maspalomas is the goldmine of the Canary Islands, although the archipelago does not want to acknowledge this. Nor do they want to acknowledge in Las Palmas that 11 beaches were destroyed to create its Avenida Marítima and the dunes of Arenales do not even appear in textbooks. Decisions in the Canary Islands are mostly taken without taking into account the tourist lung that provides oxygen to the archipelago to pay for the dependency services of El Hierro. This Monday the Canarian Government agreed to allocate 400.000 euros for a day centre in Mogán.
That said, the south of Gran Canaria is once again the lord and master of the ranking of the richest in the Canary Islands. This 2024, Arantza Mañaricua, head of the hotel and services group Gloria, continues to gain ground, according to the newspaper El Mundo, with 190 million euros in assets. In the Basque Country, she would be on par with other money owners such as Sabino Arrieta Heras, former director of Sidenor; Hermanos Bergareche Busquet, with capital invested in Ferrovial and MaxamCorp and Juan Carlos Ureta, president of Renta4 Banco.
With a fortune of 1.275 billion euros, Eustasio López González and family, from Lopesan (45th in Spain), are at the top of the Canary Islands ranking; and Pedro Agustín del Castillo Machado and family, with a capital of 220 million euros. The calculation of each fortune by El Mundo is based on official and published data, with the Commercial Registry and other European registries and the CNMV as the main sources. The basis for the calculation is the net worth of the companies.
From Gran Canaria, the owners of HD Parque Cristóbal and Hiperdino, Hermanos Domínguez Santana (400 million euros); the owner of Salobre Golf, Juan Miguel Sanjuán y Jover (211 million euros), maintain their positions in the ranking as does the owner of Domingo Alonso, Óliver Alonso (255 million euros). The owners of the Intercasa tomato sauce and the Vivvo hotel chain, the Martinón García family (Grumasa) continue to have their historical commercial interests in the south of Gran Canaria (215 million euros). The owner of the Tablero shopping centre, Amid Achi Fadul, manages 215 million euros.
