SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Masca ravine jetty is now operational after the completion of the conditioning works carried out by the Cabildo de Tenerife and which will complete the possibility of going out by sea after following the path to visit the channel of the ravine enabled two years ago.
The new infrastructure consists of a 46-block concrete dock and a walkway and replaces the old pier that existed in the area and a boarding platform that can also be used as a heliport.
The investment of this resource has exceeded 1.6 million euros and will enable “the possibility of picking up walkers who walk the path of the ravine and go out by sea to Los Gigantes, or in the future when it is built, to Teno”, The Councilor for Natural Environment and Security Management of the Cabildo, Isabel García, has indicated during the visit made to this new resource.
The Cabildo’s action in the Masca ravine began with the start-up of a new visitor center in the hamlet and the rehabilitation of the path, in addition to setting up a new reservation system, pointed out the counselor, who added that “with this has managed to reduce the accident rate in one of the black spots of the island’s natural environment, where falls and rescues used to occur, putting people’s safety at stake”.
With this jetty, which will be managed by the Buenavista City Council, she said, “we closed the circle opened in March 2021 when the ravine path was reopened and through which some 20,000 people have already passed,” said the counselor, who also pointed out that ” more than one hundred thousand people have entered the Visitor Center, and we anticipate that now, that there will be an exit by sea, that number will increase”.
The mayor of Buenavista del Norte, Antonio González, indicated that for the municipality the reception of this pier “is a tremendous opportunity to ensure that the flow of visitors that is going to go down the ravine can be directed towards Punta de Teno”, adding that In this way, the offer to visit the Rural Park will be diversified “connecting Masca with the rest of the park, and helping the development of towns such as El Palmar or Las Portelas, and that the tourist reality that is generated in Masca is linked to the town of Buenavista del Norte and its surroundings and not only to the south of the island”.
Isabel García recalled that “in order to access the path you have to request authorization on the web, and with this the number of people who run through the ravine will be managed and thus be able to control its safety and sustainability with criteria of load capacity”.
Likewise, the counselor called for people who come to Masca to do so by public transport, because “in the village there is a shortage of places.”
