The Teide National Park, the first in the Canary Islands and the largest, celebrates this Monday the 70th anniversary of its declaration.
It was on this day in 1954 when the creation of the Teide National Park was published in the Official State Gazette in order to protect its landscape, its geological particularities and the peculiarities of the flora and fauna.
The park is located on an ancient and gigantic volcanic caldera with a perimeter of 45 kilometers, an immense depression known as the Cañadas del Teide, highlighted in its memory by the National Center for Geographic Information.
It has different climatic conditions from the rest of the Canary Islands: it is the only high subtropical mountain area in Europe, which allows for a great biological wealth adapted to the extreme climate, and many of its species are exclusive to the park.
The invertebrate flora and fauna stand out, and among the vertebrates, the blight lizard and numerous birds.
On July 2, 2007, Teide National Park was included in the World Heritage list as a Natural Asset., following the UNESCO World Heritage Convention meeting held in Christchurch, New Zealand.
