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Valle de La Orotava and Pico del Teide |
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Humid N side of Tenerife, panoramic view from Mirador de Chipeque across the Valle de La Orotava, result of a huge prehistoric rock avalanche, in W direction. This scene reveals that the stratovolcano Pico del Teide (3715 m), shown in the left central background, sits on an older shield volcano. The forest is dominated by Pinus canariensis.
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
- Created
- on Monday 1 May 2023 by Martin Mergili
- Keywords
- coastscape, conifer, cultural landscape, geodiversity, landslide, lightscape, mountainscape, mountaintop, non-tropical montane forest, plant, rock avalanche, shield volcano, silviculture, stratovolcano, volcanic rock, volcanism, Zonobiome IV
- Visits and license
- 5137 visits, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license