SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of the Canary Islands has made public this Monday a report in which it estimates the economic damage caused by the forest fire last summer in Tenerife at 177 million euros, which affected almost 14,000 hectares of surface in a total of 12 municipalities, being the La Orotava (34.9%), Candelaria (12.9%) and Arafo (12.3%) were most affected.
The document, presented to the media by the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, the vice president, Manuel Domínguez, the president of the Cabildo, Rosa Dávila, and the vice president, Lope Afonso, also details that 71.7% of the land affected rustic era of landscape protection, 25.5% of natural protection, 1.8% of protection of infrastructure and equipment and 1% of agricultural protection.
In total, 5,593 rural plots were damaged, almost half in Candelaria, and only three urban plots in the municipality of Arafo.
The costs of environmental restoration are estimated at 39.7 million by the Tenerife Cabildo, with another 26.5 million in public infrastructure and another 14.1 million in agricultural operations.
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