The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the staff of the Teno Rural Park has extracted from the farm the dwellingslocated in the protected natural space with more than 115 linear meters of disused steel pipe, vestiges of the uses that channeled the waters of Monte del Agua to Isla Baja.
These infrastructures had been installed largely on the edge of the PR-54 trail. For this reason, last May, the personnel assigned to the Teno Rural Park Management Office proceeded to remove these pipes, resulting in the elimination of more than one hundred meters of conduction.
The Minister for Management of the Natural Environment and Security, Isabel García, pointed out that “among the actions carried out by the Teno Rural Park Management office is the conservation of the landscape and the restoration of significantly altered areas, as well as provide the park with a network of trails that promote adequate management for conservation purposes, the socioeconomic development of the region and the safety of users, and this dismantling action is an example of the work carried out throughout all year”
The Las Moradas farm was acquired by the Cabildo Insular in May 2001, and has an area of 52 hectares. It is located in the municipality of Los Silos and crossed by the PR-TF-54 trail. This begins its route in Erjos, and connects the Monte del Agua with the Los Silos hull, and has a total length of 11.7 km.
The trail passes through an old hamlet, to which it gives its name, Caserío de las Moradas, inhabited until the middle of the last century, and whose land was used for farming and ranching. The farm was and is also an obligatory step for hydraulic infrastructures such as canals and pipes for conducting water from galleries and springs originating in the Monte del Agua, a resource that in the past and today represents a fundamental means in the agricultural development of the region of the low island
