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Mount Teide


Coat of arms of the Canary Islands and Tenerife, without a doubt the most spectacular natural feature, Teide dominates almost the entire center of Tenerife and can be seen from virtually anywhere, its often snow-covered peaks and can even be seen from the beach a great destination for cheap holidays in the canaries!

The mountain peculiar name derives from the Spanish version of her name Guanche Echeyde or Echeide, which means essentially the hell in the indigenous language of the Guanches. Due to volcanic nature understandably Teide, the Guanches Teide thought on one of the portals to the Fiery depths in which the evil spirit lived .

3,718 m high is Spain's highest mountain - Mount Teide is actually only the northern ridge of the massive volcano of Tenerife, with the creation of millions of years credited. To give you just a glimpse of the sheer size of the volcano (and apparently its eruptive), is a further indication of its colossal dimensions "La Caldera", the crater measuring 17 km in width.

The Teide Nature

Mount Teide, the volcanic nature of the Teide National Park provides a playground full of fascinating geological trails and routes. Together with the Teide and the huge crater, other features of the park strange rock formations include lava flows back through a second volcano - Pico Viejo - and its stunning 800-meter crater left, the collapsed crater of Las Cañadas, that form and Guajara-a place by the internal crater walls that virtually created steep cliffs shooting up hundreds of meters.

The Teide National Park is essentially wide, unspoiled wilderness of volcanic rock formations a great destination for cheap holidays in the canaries, to fields of wild flowers and pine forests. Hundreds of species of trees, flowers, insects, birds and other creatures inhabit the area and make it easily one of the most fascinating biological regions. Keep an eye out for the indigenous species such as the Tenerife lagarto TIZON, a stone-colored lizards and the Teide violet, an endangered species of wild flowers.

The Teide National Park

In 1954 achieved Teide and its huge and pristine nature national park status for its environmental and volcanic significance, today it is the oldest and - 18,990 hectares - the largest of the Canary Islands' National Parks. Is beyond the limits of the extensive Teide National Park the area still confused by the Corona Forestal Nature Park, the 46 613 hectares make the Canaries' biggest nature reserves (not to be with the national) park surrounded.



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