Teide National Park , Tenerife ( Canary  Island) [IGEO TV]
Channel: IgeoNews
Date: 2013-09-25

Teide National Park is located Tenerife Island, in the Canary Archipelago. It was declared as national park on 22 January 1954, making it one of the oldest national parks in Spain. It is the most visited National Park in Spain and one of the most visited in Europe and in the world.

It is one of the most spectacular geological monuments of the world where volcanic cones and lava flows form an extraordinary landscape. The park also has an important biological diversity, with a high percentage of endemic species, including the Canary Island Lizard, the Blue Chaffinch, the Teide Violet, the Teide bugloss or the Teide Broom.

The area of the park known as the Cañadas del Teide is a sedimentary plain at the foot of Mount Teide and Pico Viejo. The Circo de las Cañadas is one of the largest calderas in the world, has an elliptical shape, with 16 km of major axis, 10 Km of minor axis and 45 Km of perimeter.

The National Park has in the Mount Teide (3,718 m) the highest peak, which is also the highest in Spain. Next to Teide is the Pico Viejo, which features a crater 0f 800 meters in diameter and an altitude of 3,100 meters of height.

The volcanic landscape, the lights, and the shades of the great peaks of the park, along with great variety of  plants and fauna species, presents itself as a unique place in the world, it comes to be a real treasure of nature.
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