SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Today, Friday, the Plenary Session of the Cabildo of Tenerife approved an institutional motion in which the Government of Spain is urged to adopt the appropriate decisions that allow the island to be the headquarters of the National Volcanology Center, since it is the one with the greatest volcanic risk of the archipelago.
The agreement, approved unanimously, also contemplates urging the Government of the Canary Islands to promote and defend before the Government of Spain that they adopt the appropriate decisions that allow the island of Tenerife to be the headquarters of the aforementioned organization.
The text indicates that the Cabildo will maintain its efforts in promotion and defense before the Government of the Canary Islands and the Government of Spain to adopt the appropriate decisions that allow the island of Tenerife to be the headquarters of the National Volcanology Center.
In this sense, it is noted that the work being carried out by the Canary Islands Volcanological Institute (Involcan), an entity dependent on the Cabildo, which studies and supervises the most important volcanoes of the Canary archipelago, in particular, Teide in Tenerife, Cumbre Vieja in La Palma, the underwater volcanoes of El Hierro and the numerous cones and craters of Lanzarote.
In addition to its action in the Canary Islands, the entity has a team of professionals with experience in scientific collaboration projects developed in more than 20 countries and volcanically active regions.
The National Volcanology Center is an entity unanimously demanded by the Senate, the Parliament of the Canary Islands and the Congress of Deputies whose purpose is to contribute to the improvement of volcanic risk management in Spain and the optimization of the management of the numerous benefits that entails living in a volcanic territory.
The fundamental reasons why the main headquarters of this entity should be in Tenerife is because it is scientifically proven that it is the island with the highest volcanic risk in the Canary Islands and, therefore, also in Spain, since the Archipelago is the only volcanically active area. of the national territory with volcanic risk.
