Macizo de Anaga
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Tenerife
Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...
in the Canary Islands
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
. The highest point is 1,024 m (Cruz de Taborno). It extends to the Punta de Anaga in the northeast up to Cruz del Carmen in the southwest. Anaga features the mountain points of Bichuelo, Anambro, Chinobre, Pico Limante, Cruz de Taborno and Cruz del Carmen. The mountains were formed from a volcanic eruption about 7 to 9 million years ago making it the oldest parts of the island. At the time Guanche
Guanche
Guanche may refer to:*Guanches, an aboriginal people of the Canary Islands*Guanche language, extinct language, used to be spoken by the Guanches until the 16th or 17th century...
the king was Beneharo
Beneharo
Beneharo was a leader-king Guanche of Menceyato de Anaga on the island of Tenerife. Beneharo was the first to oppose Alonso Fernandez de Lugo, and joined the war camp, in conjunction with other menceyes, faced Lugo in the First Battle of Acentejo in the Battle of Aguere and the Second Battle of...
.
In many vestiges have appeared as the famous season Guanche Mummy of San Andrés
Mummy of San Andrés
The Mummy of San Andrés is a human mummy belonging to the Guanche culture .One of the best preserved Guanche mummies, it is a male of about 25 to 30 years partially covered with goatskin with 6 strips that surround it. The mummy was found in a cave in a ravine outside the village of San Andrés...
.
In transportation there are no roads encircling the northeastern part of the island but runs through San Andrés and northwest because these cliffs are treacherous for transportation. After San Andrés the most important villages are Taganana and Igueste de San Andrés.
The relative altitude and the peculiar situation being at the passage of the tradewinds converting into a specially humid zone, which favored its existence of special diversity for the natural habitats, which features the laurisilva
Laurisilva
Laurisilva or laurissilva is a subtropical forest, found in areas with high humidity and relatively stable and mild temperatures. They are characterised by evergreen, glossy-leaved tree species that look alike with leaves of lauroide type...
trees. Faunas also features on the island including Ceropegia dichotoma
Ceropegia dichotoma
Ceropegia dichotoma is a flowering plant in the genus Ceropegia . It is endemic to the Canary Islands, where it grows on Tenerife , El Hierro, La Gomera, and La Palma in the Tabaibal-Cardonal zone at up to about 600 m altitude...
, Ceropegia fusca
Ceropegia fusca
Ceropegia fusca is a flowering plant in the genus Ceropegia . It is endemic to the Canary Islands, where it grows on Tenerife , Gran Canaria, and La Palma in the Tabaibal-Cardonal zone at up to about 600 m altitude.-Description:The Ceropegia fusca plant forms erect woody stems reaching to 1.5 m...
, Echium virescens
Echium virescens
Echium virescens is a plant included in the genus Echium. It is endemic to the island of Tenerife, mainly in Macizo de Anaga and the Orotava Valley...
and more.
The natural park was first founded in 1987, it later classified to this day as Parque Rural de Anaga in 1994 by the Law of the Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands. (Espacios Naturales de Canarias).
In this place there is a mountainous zone known like, The "El Bailadero" hall like that for which supposedly it was the place where the witches were doing practicing witchcraft
Witchcraft
Witchcraft, in historical, anthropological, religious, and mythological contexts, is the alleged use of supernatural or magical powers. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft...
and were dancing around a bonfire, of there it is supposed that it derives the current name of the zone, El Bailadero. Another legend says the pirate, "Cabeza de Perro" buried a treasure along the cliffs of Anaga.
The main celebrations are Anaga St. Andrew in San Andrés (November 30) and the Virgen de las Nieves (Taganana) on August 5. Also in the midlands of South Anaga mountains near San Andrés, a place known as "San Pedrito", where there is an altar to the saint for a miracle that did, about June 29 (day of the saint), is organized pilgrimages from San Andrés to that place.
See also
- Roques de AnagaRoques de AnagaRoques de Anaga are two of nature's most emblematic monuments of Tenerife and are integrated into the European network Natura 2000....
- San Andrés
- TenerifeTenerifeTenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...
- Dámaso Rodríguez MartínDámaso Rodríguez MartínDámaso Rodríguez Martín , better known as "El Brujo" , was a Spanish serial killer. Who in 1991 sowed terror in the Anaga mountain area, which are the mountains and hills surrounding the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain....
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Tenerife
Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...
in the Canary Islands
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
. The highest point is 1,024 m (Cruz de Taborno). It extends to the Punta de Anaga in the northeast up to Cruz del Carmen in the southwest. Anaga features the mountain points of Bichuelo, Anambro, Chinobre, Pico Limante, Cruz de Taborno and Cruz del Carmen. The mountains were formed from a volcanic eruption about 7 to 9 million years ago making it the oldest parts of the island. At the time Guanche
Guanche
Guanche may refer to:*Guanches, an aboriginal people of the Canary Islands*Guanche language, extinct language, used to be spoken by the Guanches until the 16th or 17th century...
the king was Beneharo
Beneharo
Beneharo was a leader-king Guanche of Menceyato de Anaga on the island of Tenerife. Beneharo was the first to oppose Alonso Fernandez de Lugo, and joined the war camp, in conjunction with other menceyes, faced Lugo in the First Battle of Acentejo in the Battle of Aguere and the Second Battle of...
.
In many vestiges have appeared as the famous season Guanche Mummy of San Andrés
Mummy of San Andrés
The Mummy of San Andrés is a human mummy belonging to the Guanche culture .One of the best preserved Guanche mummies, it is a male of about 25 to 30 years partially covered with goatskin with 6 strips that surround it. The mummy was found in a cave in a ravine outside the village of San Andrés...
.
In transportation there are no roads encircling the northeastern part of the island but runs through San Andrés and northwest because these cliffs are treacherous for transportation. After San Andrés the most important villages are Taganana and Igueste de San Andrés.
The relative altitude and the peculiar situation being at the passage of the tradewinds converting into a specially humid zone, which favored its existence of special diversity for the natural habitats, which features the laurisilva
Laurisilva
Laurisilva or laurissilva is a subtropical forest, found in areas with high humidity and relatively stable and mild temperatures. They are characterised by evergreen, glossy-leaved tree species that look alike with leaves of lauroide type...
trees. Faunas also features on the island including Ceropegia dichotoma
Ceropegia dichotoma
Ceropegia dichotoma is a flowering plant in the genus Ceropegia . It is endemic to the Canary Islands, where it grows on Tenerife , El Hierro, La Gomera, and La Palma in the Tabaibal-Cardonal zone at up to about 600 m altitude...
, Ceropegia fusca
Ceropegia fusca
Ceropegia fusca is a flowering plant in the genus Ceropegia . It is endemic to the Canary Islands, where it grows on Tenerife , Gran Canaria, and La Palma in the Tabaibal-Cardonal zone at up to about 600 m altitude.-Description:The Ceropegia fusca plant forms erect woody stems reaching to 1.5 m...
, Echium virescens
Echium virescens
Echium virescens is a plant included in the genus Echium. It is endemic to the island of Tenerife, mainly in Macizo de Anaga and the Orotava Valley...
and more.
The natural park was first founded in 1987, it later classified to this day as Parque Rural de Anaga in 1994 by the Law of the Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands. (Espacios Naturales de Canarias).
In this place there is a mountainous zone known like, The "El Bailadero" hall like that for which supposedly it was the place where the witches were doing practicing witchcraft
Witchcraft
Witchcraft, in historical, anthropological, religious, and mythological contexts, is the alleged use of supernatural or magical powers. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft...
and were dancing around a bonfire, of there it is supposed that it derives the current name of the zone, El Bailadero. Another legend says the pirate, "Cabeza de Perro" buried a treasure along the cliffs of Anaga.
The main celebrations are Anaga St. Andrew in San Andrés (November 30) and the Virgen de las Nieves (Taganana) on August 5. Also in the midlands of South Anaga mountains near San Andrés, a place known as "San Pedrito", where there is an altar to the saint for a miracle that did, about June 29 (day of the saint), is organized pilgrimages from San Andrés to that place.
See also
- Roques de AnagaRoques de AnagaRoques de Anaga are two of nature's most emblematic monuments of Tenerife and are integrated into the European network Natura 2000....
- San Andrés
- TenerifeTenerifeTenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...
- Dámaso Rodríguez MartínDámaso Rodríguez MartínDámaso Rodríguez Martín , better known as "El Brujo" , was a Spanish serial killer. Who in 1991 sowed terror in the Anaga mountain area, which are the mountains and hills surrounding the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain....
External links
Tenerife
Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...
in the Canary Islands
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
. The highest point is 1,024 m (Cruz de Taborno). It extends to the Punta de Anaga in the northeast up to Cruz del Carmen in the southwest. Anaga features the mountain points of Bichuelo, Anambro, Chinobre, Pico Limante, Cruz de Taborno and Cruz del Carmen. The mountains were formed from a volcanic eruption about 7 to 9 million years ago making it the oldest parts of the island. At the time Guanche
Guanche
Guanche may refer to:*Guanches, an aboriginal people of the Canary Islands*Guanche language, extinct language, used to be spoken by the Guanches until the 16th or 17th century...
the king was Beneharo
Beneharo
Beneharo was a leader-king Guanche of Menceyato de Anaga on the island of Tenerife. Beneharo was the first to oppose Alonso Fernandez de Lugo, and joined the war camp, in conjunction with other menceyes, faced Lugo in the First Battle of Acentejo in the Battle of Aguere and the Second Battle of...
.
In many vestiges have appeared as the famous season Guanche Mummy of San Andrés
Mummy of San Andrés
The Mummy of San Andrés is a human mummy belonging to the Guanche culture .One of the best preserved Guanche mummies, it is a male of about 25 to 30 years partially covered with goatskin with 6 strips that surround it. The mummy was found in a cave in a ravine outside the village of San Andrés...
.
In transportation there are no roads encircling the northeastern part of the island but runs through San Andrés and northwest because these cliffs are treacherous for transportation. After San Andrés the most important villages are Taganana and Igueste de San Andrés.
The relative altitude and the peculiar situation being at the passage of the tradewinds converting into a specially humid zone, which favored its existence of special diversity for the natural habitats, which features the laurisilva
Laurisilva
Laurisilva or laurissilva is a subtropical forest, found in areas with high humidity and relatively stable and mild temperatures. They are characterised by evergreen, glossy-leaved tree species that look alike with leaves of lauroide type...
trees. Faunas also features on the island including Ceropegia dichotoma
Ceropegia dichotoma
Ceropegia dichotoma is a flowering plant in the genus Ceropegia . It is endemic to the Canary Islands, where it grows on Tenerife , El Hierro, La Gomera, and La Palma in the Tabaibal-Cardonal zone at up to about 600 m altitude...
, Ceropegia fusca
Ceropegia fusca
Ceropegia fusca is a flowering plant in the genus Ceropegia . It is endemic to the Canary Islands, where it grows on Tenerife , Gran Canaria, and La Palma in the Tabaibal-Cardonal zone at up to about 600 m altitude.-Description:The Ceropegia fusca plant forms erect woody stems reaching to 1.5 m...
, Echium virescens
Echium virescens
Echium virescens is a plant included in the genus Echium. It is endemic to the island of Tenerife, mainly in Macizo de Anaga and the Orotava Valley...
and more.
The natural park was first founded in 1987, it later classified to this day as Parque Rural de Anaga in 1994 by the Law of the Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands. (Espacios Naturales de Canarias).
In this place there is a mountainous zone known like, The "El Bailadero" hall like that for which supposedly it was the place where the witches were doing practicing witchcraft
Witchcraft
Witchcraft, in historical, anthropological, religious, and mythological contexts, is the alleged use of supernatural or magical powers. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft...
and were dancing around a bonfire, of there it is supposed that it derives the current name of the zone, El Bailadero. Another legend says the pirate, "Cabeza de Perro" buried a treasure along the cliffs of Anaga.
The main celebrations are Anaga St. Andrew in San Andrés (November 30) and the Virgen de las Nieves (Taganana) on August 5. Also in the midlands of South Anaga mountains near San Andrés, a place known as "San Pedrito", where there is an altar to the saint for a miracle that did, about June 29 (day of the saint), is organized pilgrimages from San Andrés to that place.
See also
- Roques de AnagaRoques de AnagaRoques de Anaga are two of nature's most emblematic monuments of Tenerife and are integrated into the European network Natura 2000....
- San Andrés
- TenerifeTenerifeTenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...
- Dámaso Rodríguez MartínDámaso Rodríguez MartínDámaso Rodríguez Martín , better known as "El Brujo" , was a Spanish serial killer. Who in 1991 sowed terror in the Anaga mountain area, which are the mountains and hills surrounding the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain....
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