El Teide - Tenerife
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With an average altitude of over 2,000 metres, the Teide National Park offers you one of the most spectacular examples of volcanic activity in the world.
It was created in 1954 in recognition of its special volcanic and biological features. Covering 18,990 hectares, it is the largest National Park in the Canary Islands.
El Teide, with a height of 3,718 metres above sea level, is the highest mountain in Spain.It is a stratovolcano which rests on an ancient and gigantic cauldron-shaped depression made up of two semi-calderas separated by the Roques de García.
Teide reaches a summit at Pilón de Azucar, which still shows residual activity in the form of fumaroles and sulphur at 86ºC.
The cauldron, or caldera, known as Las Cañadas, takes its name from the most typical structure of the Park: la Cañada, a sedimentary plain that is normally situated at the foot of the walls of the caldera.
The genesis of the great Las Cañadas Circus still causes controversy among geologists, with theories ranging from an explosion, erosion,collapse and major landslides. The most widely accepted theory until the early nineties was the collapse theory as the basic cause. The theory assumes that it is a caldera with two sub-calderas, an eastern one and a western one, separated by the Roques de García and formed by collapses and landslides. The current volcanic edifice was later formed in the northern sector of Las Cañadas caldera. This is Teide - Pico Viejo.
This stratovolcano and the caldera are the two largest structures in the National Park.
Investigations of the Island´s subsoil, however and studies of the sea bed and the submarine relief in recent years have confirmed the theory presented by local geologist and geographer Telesforo Bravo in 1962. Las Cañadas, along with the Orotava and Güimar valleys are depressions formed by gravitational landslides of more than 100 Km3 of part of the island.
Dating places the Güimar valley event 0.8 million years ago, the Orotava valley event at 0.5 million years ago and Las Cañadas 0.17 million years ago.
Rides to the summit in cable car from the La Rambleta cable car station start at 9 a.m. and finish at 4 p.m., unless weather conditions or high winds make it impossible. Restrictive measures have now been taken, to PREVENT access to the very summit of the cone without a special permit, although you can go up to the La Fortaleza and Pico Viejo look outs.
In order to go up to Pico del Teide, along the "Telesforo Bravo" trail from La Rambleta or Cable Car station (3550 m) you first need written permission from the National Park Office, which will be valid for TWO given dates:
Oficina del Parque Nacional C/ Emilio Calzadilla, nº 5 - 4ª planta Telf. 922 290129 - 922 290183 Fax: 922 244788 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Office hours: from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. from Monday to Friday (take a photocopy of your passport or I.D. card.)
Oficina del Parque Nacional C/ Emilio Calzadilla, nº 5 - 4ª planta Santa Cruz de Tenerife Telf. 922 290129 - 922 290183 Fax: 922 244788 Horario: de 9 a 14 hrs de lunes a viernes (llevar fotocopia del DNI)
Group visits must be arranged in advance with the Canary Island Astrophysics Institute (IAC): Tel. 922 605200 - 922 605207 (La Laguna) Open: from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for first and last visits. The visit lasts approximately one an a half hours.Groups: Groups must not exceed 45 people of be less than 15. In the latter case, they will be merged with another group that has already booked a visit.Routine: Arrive at the Observatory - screening of an information video about the IAC and its observatories - Visit of the facility.Visits are free of charge; visitors are responsible for transport. The observatory is in Izaña, 6 Km from "El Portillo" along the La Laguna road.For more inoformation:Teide Observatory Tel.:922 329 100 Fax: 922 329 117 email: teide@ot.iac.esCanary Islands Astrophysics Institute (I.A.C.) C/ Via Lactea s/n 8200 La Laguna (Tenerife) Tfno: 922 605 200 Fax: 922 605 210 email: cpv@iac.es
Superficie: 50 hectáreas Altitud: 2.400 metros Longitud: 16º30´35" Oeste Latitud: 28º18´00" Norte
