Go to the first location and obtain the date of Urbanizacion of Los Abriguitos - 5 numbers. Reduce this to a single digit using the method in the Hint. This is U. The other numbers are V W X Y & Z
Vaya a la primera ubicación y obtenga la fecha de Urbanización de Los Abriguitos - 5 números. Reduzca esto a un solo dígito usando el método en la sugerencia. Esto es U. Los otros números son V W X Y y Z
Gehen Sie zum ersten Ort und erhalten Sie das Datum der Urbanización de Los Abriguitos - 5 Nummern. Reduziere dies mit der Methode im Tipp auf eine einzelne Ziffer. Dies ist U. Die anderen Zahlen sind V W X Y & Z
A= X-U+Z
B= V+W
C= X-Z
D= Z
E= X
F= Y
The cache can be found at N28 08.ABC W016 26.DEF
Checksum N=13 W=19
Abandoned Leper Colony - Ghost Town in Tenerife
The sad act like lepers, they stick to the shadows
In 1942 they began to construct a town near Abades on the East Coast of Tenerife in order to send all the people with leper to be quarantined there. This place is still known as the Leper Colony of Arico. Today it is an authentic abandoned town next to the ocean, built with rough southern stone that blends into the landscape. The most visually striking piece is the church that can be seen from the main highway.
Leprosy was once considered a major disease in Tenerife. During the 1930's, after the Spanish Civil War was over, there were around 200 leprosy cases on the island, and with no cure at the time the only remedy was isolation. Having the sick well away from the main population was the only solution to avoid contagion. The island was a bit unprepared for this social health problem; until a crematorium was built, the dead bodies of the sick were thrown in the sea. Pretty unsuccessful as they would just eventually float back to shore.
According to an article was published in edition 5 of the magazine Sureste entitled "The leper colony of Tenerife. The beginning and end of an uncompleted project", once the project began, which supposedly didn't follow the plans with any accuracy, thought about using several sections separated for the healthy and sick by sexes. The sick area included dining rooms, bathrooms, a main hospital area, recreation spaces and a part was destined for residential use, where there was a church and schools.
The church itself is architecturally interesting Work on the buildings started and was left in different stages of completion. Some areas are finished but others remain in their structural stages. Work was suspended in the forties when cures for leprosy were found, and it was considered that patients would be better off receiving treatment in their own homes.
The great leper colony of Arico never received one sick patient. It remained abandoned and began its slow deterioration.
In the sixties it was used as a military camp, which was obligatory at that time for everyone, entitled la Escuela de Magisterio, but was best know as a military station for shooting practice. Soldiers were housed in the finished buildings and remains of the wired circuit surrounding its perimeter can still be seen.
In 2002 the Department of Defence put the almost 900,000 square metres of land up for sale and an Italian developer, bought it for 17 million Euros to build a tourist complex which would include a hotel of 3,000 beds and two golf courses. At the time the mayor of Arico, Eladio Morales was congratulated for, in his words, "the execution of an important tourist project which will introduce into our municipality the development of tourism in the island." In 2003 progress suffered a severe setback when the ley de Moratoria Turística completely paralysed the project in which the Cabildo had also invested a total of six million euros.
Since that time the ghost town has been used for rallies, festivals, paintball events etc., and in 2008 it was used as background for filming some scenes of the series Plan America, the most famous being that of a cow being blown up by a mine. Today, a visit to the ruins of this ancient healing station gives you an eerie feeling, without a doubt it lets your imagination take you to the times when this disease killed thousands of people