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The Pico del Teide [ piko del tejðe ], sometimes Teyde is, at 3,718 meters, the highest elevation on the Canary island of Tenerife, the highest mountain on Spanish territory. The Teide is the third largest island volcano in the world. He belongs to the municipality of La Orotava. 18,990 acres of the mountain region are designated as a National Park. From 1996 to 2010, the number of visitors fluctuated year within 2,4 and 3.8 million. In 2007, the area of ​​the park by UNESCO has been included in the list of World Natural Heritage.

Name

His name El Teide is the hispanisierte shape of Guanche term Echeyde. He called the home of the evil demons Guayota which the legend had captured after the sun god Magec and held captive in Echeyde. The darkness frightened the Guanches deeply, and they asked their supreme god Achaman for help. This drove Guayota, freed the sun god Magec and locked the upper opening of the Echeyde with a plug, the so-called Pan de Azucar (sugar bread) or Pilon ( Sugar Loaf ).

Geology

The Pico del Teide is a stratovolcano. Its slopes are barely covered. It rises from a huge caldera 17 km in diameter, called Las Cañadas. According to earlier ideas it originated 170,000 years ago from an older volcano collapsed emptied its magma chamber in itself. Today, it is believed, however, that the southern edge of the " Caldera ", the " amphitheater " of a debris avalanche that slid north into the sea. Geologists suspect that the submarine plateau is the material of this gigantic Abrutsches in the north of Tenerife.

The Teide itself is not created in one step. The complex Teide - Pico Viejo is a stratovolcano that formed by the accumulation of material successive eruptions. The 200 -meter-high Mount Teide summit El Pitón also originated from an older crater.

The last eruption at Teide massif took place on November 18, 1909 at Chineryo, instead of a cinder cone 10 km north- west of the summit. The last eruption within the caldera occurred in 1798 at the Narices del Teide, the ( 3134 m) are located on the western flank of the volcano Pico Viejo neighbor.

Phase 2 - 5 million years ago, going out and erosion of the volcanoes Teno, Anaga, Adeje

Phase 3 - created 4 billion years ago, volcanic edifices Cañadas

Phase 4 - 3 million years ago, volcanic structure of the building 1 Cañadas

Phase 5 - Modern Times: Structure of the Teide, Pico Viejo

National Park and tourism

In 1954, the Teide and the Caldera surrounding it were designated as a national park. In 2007, the area of ​​the park by UNESCO has been included in the list of World Natural Heritage.

Since the late 1990s, the observance of nature conservation exacerbated by the permanent presence of gamekeepers is controlled. Walking away from the predetermined paths will not be tolerated. You can climb Mount Teide on a well-marked path. At 3260 meters above sea level, there is a refuge of the municipality with the name Refugio de Altavista. The historic building was renovated and holds a place to stay ready. Alternatively, a cable railway, the teleférico del Teide, up to 150 meters below the summit. From the mountain station of a network of trails branched.

For the ascent of the summit, a permit is required, which is obtained on the Internet or in the National Park Service in Santa Cruz de Tenerife office. Permission with a time window of two hours is issued free of charge, if the conditions on the summit allow an ascent and the quota for the corresponding period is not yet exhausted. Early booking is advisable.

No permission needed, who climbs in the Refugio de Altavista stayed in ( login required) and the summit before nine clock. Especially impressive when one is already at sunrise on the summit. In the week after the full moon rise from the Refugio at this time is also possible without a headlamp.

About 13 kilometers northeast from the summit, the Observatorio del Teide of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC ) is situated at 2390 meters above sea level with its ESA Optical Ground Station ( Lage28.301247222222 - 16.510369444444 ). One hand it serves the satellite observation and on the other hand the testing of optical communication technologies for space applications (see Laser Communication Terminal ).

Approximately 3.5 miles south of the valley station of the cable car Teide on the highway TF-21 are the Roques de García, an ensemble of multi-colored rock pinnacles. The most striking rock called Roque Chinchado ( " The stone tree"). The rock formations are probably remnants of the original volcano.

View from Montana Blanca to Fortaleza

Venison Natternkopf

Ucanca level

Teide mountain station of the cable car Teide summit

Trivia

Mike Oldfield composed a four-minute, instrumental piece of music that was named after the name of Mount Teide and 1982 appeared on his seventh studio album Five Miles Out.

The Swiss Musilker Paul Brandenberg, who lives partly on the neighboring island of Lanzarote, dedicated the title Teide on his 1995 album Tenerife Spain's highest mountain.