In aboriginal times it belonged to the menceyato (kingdom) of Icode. After the conquest it was called Icod de los Trigos and later Icod el Alto. Its territory is broken by two ravines, that of Ruiz and that of Dornajo. The La Pared Compulsory Education Center is situated here, which in the 1980s was became germ of the Los Alzados cultural project. An interesting initiative that pursued the recovery of music and traditional life in the area, and which won the Canary Islands Prize for Popular Culture in 2012.
