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The Teide National Park has several endemic plant species including the Teide white broom ( Spartocytisus supranubius ) ( Fabaceae ), which has white flowers ; a shrubby crucifer Descurainia bourgaeana with yellow flowers, the Canary Island wallflower ( Erysimum scoparium ) ( Brassicaceae ), which has violet flowers ; and the Teide bugloss ( Echium wildpretii ) ( Boraginaceae ), whose red flowers form a pyramid up to in height.
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Teide and National
The Teide National Park in Tenerife ( Spain ).
This province contains three of Spain's national parks, more than any other province: the Caldera de Taburiente National Park on La Palma, the Garajonay National Park on La Gomera, and the Teide National Park on Tenerife, encompassing Teide, Spain's highest mountain and also an inactive volcano.
The volcano and its surroundings comprise the Teide National Park, is also one of the most visited National Parks in the world, with a total of 2. 8 million visitors, according to the Instituto Canario de Estadística ( ISTAC ).
The volcano and its surroundings comprise the Teide National Park.
Teide National Park contains a huge range of invertebrate fauna, over 40 % of which are endemic species, with 70 species only being found in the National Park.
In contrast, Teide National Park has only a limited variety of vertebrate fauna.
The similarity between environmental conditions and geological formations between Teide National Park and the planet Mars make it a volcanic reference point for studies related to the red planet.
* Teide National Park
* Teide National Park — Official Website
Teide and has
The island of Tenerife has the highest altitude of Spain ( Teide 3718 m ).
It is said that since then, Guayota has remained locked inside Teide.
The stratovolcanoes Teide and Pico Viejo are the most recent centres of activity on the volcanic island of Tenerife, which is the largest () and highest () island in the Canaries and which has a complex volcanic history.
A recent study showed that in the future there will be violent eruptions at Teide also revealed that it has a structure similar to that of Vesuvius and Etna.
Teide is considered to be unstable and has a distinctive bulge on its northern flank.
The OGS ( Optical Ground Station ) telescope, installed in the Teide Observatory, has been built by Carl Zeiss, is owned by ESA ( European Space Agency ) and is operated by the IAC ( Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias ).
Traditionally, navy blue has been identified with the sea and the white to the snow covered peaks of Mount Teide and winter.
Teide and several
The United Nations Committee for Disaster Mitigation designated Teide as a Decade Volcano, because of its history of destructive eruptions and its proximity to several large towns, of which the closest are Garachico, Icod de los Vinos and Puerto de la Cruz.
Teide and endemic
Many wallflowers are endemic to small areas, such as the Teide wallflower E. scoparium, endemic to the Teide volcano on Tenerife, E. aetnense endemic to the Etna volcano in Sicily, the Franciscan wallflower E. franciscanum, endemic to the northern California coast, the Sierra Nevada wallflower E. nevadense, endemic to the Sierra Nevada of Spain, E. moranii from Guadalupe Island ( Mexico ), and the endangered Santa Cruz wallflower E. teretifolium, endemic to the inland sandhills of Santa Cruz County, California.
Teide and plant
The lava flows on the flanks of Teide weather to a very thin, but nutrient and mineral rich soil that supports a diverse number of plant species.
The Teide Violet ( Viola cheiranthifolia ) can be found right up to the summit of the volcano, making it the highest flowering plant in Spain.
Teide and including
The volcano and its surroundings, including the whole of the Las Cañadas caldera, are protected in a national park, the Parque Nacional del Teide.
Teide and white
In his book Greek Religion, Walter Burkert notes the connection with the motif of far-off Dilmun: " Thus Achilles is transported to the White Isle, which may refer to Mount Teide on Tenerife, whose volcano is often snowcapped and as the island was sometimes called the white isle by explorers, and becomes the Ruler of the Black Sea, and Diomedes becomes the divine lord of an Adriatic island ".
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As with other major natural monuments ( such as Uluru in Australia ), Teide, due to its composition, ( when there is no snow ) changes its color and appearance depending on the angle of sunlight.
It is a collaboration between the University of Cambridge, University of Manchester and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias ( Tenerife ), and is located at the Observatorio del Teide on Tenerife.
The six observatories are the Teide Observatory ( Canary Islands ), the Learmonth Solar Observatory ( Western Australia ), the Big Bear Solar Observatory ( California ), the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory ( Hawaii ), the Udaipur Solar Observatory ( India ) and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory ( Chile ).
Teide and which
' This suggestion fell on deaf ears until in 1856, Smyth petitioned the Admiralty for a grant of £ 500 to take a telescope to the slopes of Teide in Tenerife ( which he spelt Teneriffe ) and test whether Newton had been right or not.
Detailed mapping indicates that all the Las Cañadas volcanoes attained a maximum altitude similar to that of Teide — which is also referred to as the Las Cañadas IV volcano.
The last eruption within the Las Cañadas caldera occurred in 1798 from the Narices del Teide or Chahorra ( Teides Nostrils ) on the western flank of Pico Viejo ( Old Peak — which is actually younger than Teide ).
In 2010 a research team tested the Raman instrument at Las Cañadas del Teide, which will be sent in the next expedition to Mars ESA-NASA ExoMars in 2016-2018.
The valley stretches from the sea up to the mountains at 2, 000 m which begins near Las Cañadas up to Pico del Teide at 3, 718 m is Spain's tallest mountain.
Teide and ;
Teide is currently dormant ; the last eruption occurred in 1909 from the El Chinyero vent.
Teide and with
Alexander von Humboldt's Latin American expeditionArmed with powerful recommendations from the King of Spain, they sailed in the Pizarro from A Coruña, on June 5, 1799, stopped six days on the island of Tenerife to climb the volcano Teide, and landed at Cumaná, Venezuela, on July 16.
The Observatorio del Teide was founded in 1959, and brought the first telescope to the area in 1964, thanks to an agreement with the University of Bordeaux.
In 1994 an agreement was reached with the European Space Agency for the installation in the Observatorio del Teide of a telescope.
Teide together with its neighbour Pico Viejo and Montaña Blanca form the Central Volcanic Complex.
So, Achamán fought Guayota, and Magec was freed from the bowels of Echeyde ( Teide ) and he plugged the crater with Guayota.
Historical volcanic activity on the island is associated with vents on the Santiago or northwest rift ( Boca Cangrejo 1492, Montañas Negras 1706, Narices del Teide or Chahorra 1798 and El Chinyero 1909 ) and the Cordillera Dorsal or northeast rift ( Fasnia in 1704, Siete Fuentes and Arafo and 1705 ).
Historical activity associated with the Montaña Teide – Pico Viejo stratovolcanoes occurred in 1798 from the Narices del Teide on the western flank of Pico Viejo.
After the climb to Teide, Meyer compared with it to Kilimanjaro, calling them " two kings, one rising in the ocean and the other in the desert and steppes ".
Between June and July 2008, the Guatemalan climber Jaime Viñals in a special issue " bonded " Mount Ararat ( Turkey ) with the Teide, in an ascent to each of these two peaks in a span of less than a month.
Teide and Canary
In 1815, the German geologist Leopold von Buch visited the Las Cañadas caldera of Teide on Tenerife, and the Caldera de Taburiente on La Palma, both in the Canary Islands.
Teide, the highest mountain in Spain ( Tenerife, Canary Islands )
* Santiago del Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands
* Mount Teide: is a volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
Specimen of highly porous pumice from Teide volcano on Tenerife, Canary Islands.
Mount Teide (,, " Teide Peak ") is a volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
Teide is the main symbol of the island of Tenerife and the most emblematic natural monument of the Canary Islands.
Image: Teide Volcano, Canary Islands, Spain. jpg | Astronaut photograph of Teide
* Teide, Canary Islands, Spain
Santiago del Teide is a municipality in the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
* Teide, Tenerife Island, ( Canary Islands, Spain )
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