Los Cachazos: climate-refuge plans for Puerto’s street-art area

The old water tanks and the street art

If you know Puerto’s street-art hotspot, this is the area to have in mind. The Los Cachazos proposal concerns the area of the former water tanks whose walls have become a canvas for large paintings.

A September 2023 report in Diario de Avisos specifically described recovering the old tanks for community use. The report also pictured their painted walls. The precise extent of the final scheme around individual walls remains unconfirmed.

Our Street Art Hotspot guide marks the area at approximately 28.405450, -16.538570. This is a location reference for the artwork, not a boundary map for the proposed park.

Image: a portrait mural from our October 2024 hotspot update.

What has moved forward?

The council sent its completed reports to the regional government, requesting preparation of the construction project.

Photograph: David Hernández and Margalida Figueroa at Los Cachazos. Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto de la Cruz, August 2026.

What would happen to the murals?

The published information does not settle the future of the painted walls. The earlier proposal to reuse the tanks does not establish that individual artworks would be preserved. Equally, the reports do not announce that the murals will be removed.

That leaves a question for the detailed design: how would a new public space work with the structures and artwork already there? Anyone who has enjoyed these paintings will want to see that explained as the project develops.

Our films record a changing art space. New pieces can appear and older work can be painted over, so the images here are records of earlier visits rather than a current inventory.

Image: artwork featured in our October 2025 hotspot video.

How the proposal developed

The council launched its participatory ecopark project on 9 May 2023, with an eleven-person team covering design, environmental work and practical site tasks. The initial programme included clearing invasive vegetation and preparing the ground.

By September 2023, Diario de Avisos described neglected land that residents still used for walking, running, dog walking and sport. Early ideas included paths, play space, provision for older people and a community meeting space using the tanks. These were ideas for discussion, not a confirmed list of facilities for the present scheme.

In December 2023, the council reported that the regional government would study the proposal after the participation findings were available. January 2024 coverage recorded 407 attendances across 22 activities, with a final validation session planned for 20 January.

The announcements trace several years of planning and participation, but do not explain the full time taken.

Photograph: a site visit pictured in the council’s May 2023 announcement. Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto de la Cruz.

See the artwork in our videos

Our first hotspot film was published in January 2024. We returned with an October 2024 update, another visit published in April 2025 and the October 2025 film.

Watching the sequence gives a fuller view of the walls and setting than a single photograph can. The films also show why this spot has its own place in our outdoor-art coverage, separate from the La Ranilla wall-mural walk.

If you visit, respect boundaries and closed entrances, leave the artwork as you find it and keep the area tidy. The location pin does not guarantee access to every wall.

Image: the cat mural on the thumbnail for our original hotspot film.