Spanish conquest reduced the native guanche population to only a few hundred

Evidence

The violent campaigns that established Spanish rule in the islands in the course of the fifteenth century reduced the population of native pagan guanches to a remnant of only a few hundred. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1887

Categorization

• XREF: Genocidal population collapse of indigenous peoples connects to the broader pattern of Spanish colonial violence.