National Parks in the Canary Islands.

National Parks in the Canary Islands

There are four National Parks in the Canary Islands out of fourteen in the whole of Spain.

Caldera de Taburiente National Park

Timanfaya National Park Teide National Park

Garajonay National Park

National Parks in the Canary Islands

Timanfaya National Park Located in the Island of Lanzarote. Visitors are impressed by the park landscape which consists of volcanic soil.

National Parks in the Canary Islands Black rocks, reddish sands and dark lava stones abound.

National Parks in the Canary Islands The greatest recorded eruptions occurred between 1730 and 1736.

The volcanic activity continues as the surface temperature is very high at certain points.

National Parks in the Canary Islands

Unesco granted the qualification for the Biological Reserve to the island of Lanzarote.

National Parks in the Canary Islands

National Parks in the Canary Islands

National Parks in the Canary Islands

Teide National Park The park is worth visiting for its big crater and the high volcano. There are volcanic cones and lava flows.

There are a lot of endemic plants which only grow at this altitude.

Most of the park is a table land which lies between 1800 and 2000 m high

National Parks in the Canary Islands Mount Teide or Teide Peak is an active but dormant volcano. It is 3718 m high. There are different ways to reach the summit. There’s a cable car and you can also climb it yourself.

National Parks in the Canary Islands

National Parks in the Canary Islands

National Parks in the Canary Islands

Caldera de Taburiente National Park The park is located in the island of La Palma. The park has a cauldron shape. In Spanish ‘caldera’ means cauldron. It is a huge round crater which is 10 km in diametre.

National Parks in the Canary Islands Canarian pine trees predominate the landscape.

The mountains which surround the park are over 2000 m high. There are plenty of streams and huge vertical cliffs.

National Parks in the Canary Islands

National Parks in the Canary Islands

National Parks in the Canary Islands

The sky in the summits is so clear that the most important astrophysical observatories of the northern hemisphere are there.

National Parks in the Canary Islands

National Parks in the Canary Islands

Garajonay National Park It is located on the island of La Gomera.

The park is worth visiting because of its laurel-leaved forest.

National Parks in the Canary Islands Laurel forests are the forests which covered the Earth in the Tertiary. They disappeared in the Quaternary due to climatic change.

It is a humid subtropical forest, with laurel-leaved evergreen trees which can reach up to 40m in height.

National Parks in the Canary Islands

National Parks in the Canary Islands