The chronicles of the Great Canary Island conquest tell that the conquerors, after landing, settled on the Guiniguada precipice. Even before the conquest ended, various houses had already been built on the mound where the Castilians had installed their base camp, among some the San Antonio Abad Hermitage, the first church and cathedral of "Gran Canaria".

This first settlement grew until occupying the two Guiniguada boundaries, giving place to the Vegueta and Triana areas. The city centre moved to the Santa Ana Plaza, where construction of the new cathedral began.

During the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries the city expanded towards the island's interior, as did almost every city of the archipelago, inhabiting the irrigated regions by enthusiastic people, like good Andalusians, were the first settlers. Vegueta, Triana, where the merchants, craftsmen and sailors blended, the Vega de San José, the farmer area, and the "riscos" inhabited by immigrants and "rocotes" (fisherman) made up almost the entire city of Las Palmas until, with the construction of the "Puerto de la Luz" at the end of the XIX century, the Arenales, Las Alcaravaneras and La Isleta areas arose. Under the tourism and commercial impulse in the 60s of this century, the city has consolidated where a population that has doubled in the last thirty years settles (presently there are some 400,000 habitants).