View from Las Cañadas to Pico Viejo (3135 m, left centre) and Pico del Teide, the highest peak of Spain and Macaronesia (3715 m, right centre). These stratovolcanoes have formed in the caldera of Las Cañadas during the last 160,000 years.

Keywords

crater|caldera, high-mountain ecosystems, mountainscape, mountaintop, puna, stratovolcano, volcanism, Zonobiome III

Created

Thursday 22 May 2003 by Martin Mergili in Africa and Macaronesia / Canary Islands (5022 visits)