The origin of the Arona Public Laundries dates back to the end of the 19th century. Located in the area known as Caré, it is reached through a path where you can see its batteries and circular tank. This circular agora keeps the secrets of the women who came there to wash and talk among themselves thanks to the circular layout of the large basin in whose stones the women scrubbed their clothes. The water that fed them came from the galleries of La Vica, Madre del Medio and El Cuervo (Vilaflor).
The scarcity and unhealthiness of water was notorious, so infrastructures like these became essential for the optimization of that resource. However, it would not be until the first decades of the 20th century when the conditions and the flow that reached the laundry pond in particular and the population of Arona in general would improve. This construction is made up of a circular tank fed by two nozzles and whose rim acts as a sink due to its concave arrangement. The water used to wash in it came from the galleries of La Vica, Madre del Medio and El Cuervo (Vilaflor). It operated until the 1950s. Associated with this stone group that constitutes Los Lavaderos and especially with the water tank, several irrigation ditches and a cistern are located. The preservation of Los Lavaderos is justified as it represents real estate of notable ethnographic value, together with the immediate spatial area.
