Teide & Island Tour

 

El Teide is a volcano located on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). With a height of 3,718 meters above sea level and more than 7,000 meters above the ocean floor, is the highest peak in Spain, the landmass of any Atlantic Ocean and the third largest volcano on Earth from his base, then Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, both on the island of Hawaii. Is part of the Teide National Park, also declared a World Heritage Site.
It is also a nature reserve in the category of Natural Monument which contains the volcanic complex Teide-Pico Viejo, a large stratovolcano Vesuvian type that is still active in the light of the historical eruptions have occurred not long ago (the last, that of noses of Teide in 1798) and vents regularly issuing from its crater.