Tags: Ethnic Group.
Guanches (also: Guanchis or Guanchetos) are the aboriginal Berber inhabitants of the Canary Islands. It is believed that they migrated to the archipelago around 1000 BCE or perhaps earlier. While it is generally considered that the Guanches no longer exist as a distinct ethnicity traces of their culture can still be found intermixed within Canarian customs and traditions such as Silbo the whistled language of La Gomera Island.
