The ethnographic site is located in the highlands of Fasnia, near the Archifiras reservoir, at an altitude of over 1400 metres above sea level. From here you can clearly see the beginning of the Barranco de Herques ravine (Barranco Fasnia-Güímar Natural Monument). It is made up of a cliff vein, formed by volcanic ash falling from the cloud of volcanic material that originated during the eruption. In the upper part, and due to a flow or several flows, there is a vein of harder material, which allows digging in it.
The “Mudá” was the manifestation of the need and ingenuity of the inhabitants of Fasnia to make the best possible use of their territory. Practised until the 1950s, it reflects the need for the farmers of the village to adapt to the environment in order to satisfy the needs of their families. It consisted of periodically moving from their usual residence in the village to the mid-highlands, so that once the summer potatoes had been sown, in the month of March, they could go up to the pajero or the caves located in the upper part of the municipality. There, the main task was to prepare the land for planting the “early” potatoes in August.
At the summit, during the summer months, the time was completed with grazing, the accumulation of broom wood for the winter and the making of new flower beds for cultivation. In this ethnographic space a part of the “Mudá” is recreated and this is carried out by the Uzapa Mountaineers Cultural Association in the month of June. In the book ‘La Mudá, costumbre de un pueblo’, a compilation of testimonies of people from the municipality is offered, who explain what life was like in the rural environment of Fasnia fifty years ago, a period in which nature and the territory conditioned human activity and the hard experiences of previous generations, whose value and effort is safeguarded with this ethnographic space and its activities.
