CATE San Andrés (El Hierro)
San Andrés, Valverde, 38911 Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Managed by Ministerio del Interior, Policía Nacional
First reception, not reception proper. CATEs are police-run facilities where people are identified and given first aid on arrival; by law a stay cannot exceed 72 hours. People move on from here into the reception system, into a detention centre, or are released. Their figures must not be added to reception totals.
Temporary attention centre on El Hierro, the smallest and westernmost of the Canary Islands, which became the main landfall on the Atlantic route during the 2023-24 surge in cayuco arrivals.
Source
Iniseg: Centros de Atención Temporal de Extranjeros · news
Part of Spain’s reception and detention system. Figures are described neutrally from the cited source; coordinates marked “approx.” are town-level estimates. Most Spanish reception capacity is delivered through acción concertada in rented, dispersed apartments with no published addresses, we do not map homes. Any allegation against a named organisation is reported as an ongoing proceeding, not an established fact.