Fasnia
Municipality
Old church in Fasnia
Flag Seal
Municipal location in Tenerife
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Coordinates: 28°14′N 16°26′W / 28.233°N 16.433°W / 28.233; -16.433
Country	Spain
Autonomous Region	Canary Islands
Province	Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Island	Tenerife
Area
• Total	45.11 km2 (17.42 sq mi)
Population  (2018)[1]
• Total	2,768
• Density	61/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
Post Code	38570
Climate	Csa
Website	www.fasnia.com

Fasnia is a town and a municipality in the eastern part of the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The municipality extends for 45.1 square kilometers (17.4 sq mi) from the mountainous interior to the beaches on the Atlantic. Its population is 2,873 (2013). The TF-1 motorway passes through the municipality.

Etymology

The name of the municipality comes from that of its administrative capital, being a term of Guanche origin that also appears in the historical documentation with the Fasnea variant.^[2]

As for its possible meaning, the historian Dominik Josef Wölfel relates it to the Berber word tafessena / tifesseniwin, 'step, rung of a ladder', an opinion that is also accepted by the philologist and historian Ignacio Reyes.</ref> opinión que también acepta el filólogo e historiador Ignacio Reyes.

Sites of interest

• Barranco de Fasnia y Güimar, a river gorge, and a natural monument.