 | 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.
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