Mount Teide
Since 1954 the national park “Parque Nacional de las Cañadas del Teide ” covers a surface of approx. 136 km ². It was the third national park which was founded in Spain.
With approx. 3 Mil. visitors per year the national park of mount Teide is the most-most visited national park of Spain.
“Pico del Teide ” is with 3.718 metres the highest mountain of Spain.
Furthermore mount Teide is third-highest island volcano of the world.
He forms the northern border of the national park. In the south, the west and the east the mount Teide national park is limited by the cañadas, or lava flows which enclose a diameter of approx. 16 kilometres.
The park and the lava flows are called “caldera”, what means kettle and describes a broken in place in the volcano which is formed like a kettle. This landscape has been created when the empty vaults of magma under the earth, which are near the surface, collapsed.