Rancho Texas Lanzarote Park will present next Friday, July 3 a sculpture dedicated to Carlos Cabrera “Buffalo”, an emblematic and beloved figure of the park's Country Nights for the past 30 years.
Since the beginnings of this show, the island's dean with more than 30 uninterrupted years of activity in Lanzarotean nights, Carlos Cabrera “Buffalo” has been an essential part of the identity of Rancho Texas nights. His presence, affability, and charisma have made him a recognized character by generations of visitors, contributing to elevating the essence and characteristic atmosphere of this space.
With this tribute, Rancho Texas Lanzarote Park wants to publicly recognize his career, his connection with the park, and the affection he has generated over three decades among the public, the team, and all the people who have enjoyed the Country Nights.
Taking advantage of this occasion, the new image of the El Álamo facade will also be presented, integrated within the HISTORICAL CLASSROOM project being developed at Rancho Texas Lanzarote Park. This space is born with the objective of disseminating one of the most relevant and least known episodes of Canarian history: the participation of island families in the founding of the first civil settlement in the current state of Texas.
Rancho Texas Lanzarote Park wants to pay homage to all those Canarian families who emigrated and ended up founding what is now known as San Antonio, Texas. For some time now, the park has been working on collecting historical information to publicize the history of those who, leaving behind their homes and lands, embarked for the New World and decisively contributed to the creation of a new community.
San Antonio, Texas was founded by ten Canarian families, seven of them from Lanzarote and three from Gran Canaria, Tenerife, and La Palma. In total, there were 55 people, of whom 43 were from Lanzarote. After their arrival and the establishment of the first municipal government, everything was yet to be built: the houses, the streets, the square, the church, and the foundations of civil life in that new settlement.
On August 1, 1731, those families organized themselves as the first municipal government of Texas, made up of Canarian representatives who would become part of history. This event constitutes a historical link of great value between the Canary Islands, Lanzarote, and Texas, and is part of the identity that Rancho Texas Lanzarote Park wishes to preserve and share with new generations.
The historical classroom project will include a monument dedicated to the feat carried out by these Lanzarotean and Canarian families, as well as adjacent buildings with period recreations, audiovisual content adapted to different ages, and the publication of an informative book about this important historical episode.
With this initiative, Rancho Texas Lanzarote Park "reinforces its commitment to cultural dissemination, historical memory, and education, highlighting the role of Lanzarote and the Canary Islands in the founding of San Antonio, Texas".