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Circuito de la Caldera de Tejeda
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Specification sheet
Total length / duration of the march: 24,1 kilometres / 11 hours, 40 minutes
Difference origin / destiny: 281 meters
Maximum difference: 805 meters
Earring(slope):
It(he,she) happens: 7 degrees
Minim: 1 degrees
Maxim: 20 degrees
Road surface:
Path: 14,8 kilometres
Track: 1,5 kilometres
Asphalt: 7,8 kilometres
Impede: It(he,she) Happens
Precautions: waters courts(cuts), detachings and slippery road surface in winter.
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Acomodation (clik photo)
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The way crosses the interior of which it was a center of the volcanic insular activity during mas of nine millions and way of anuses. Tejeda's boiler I concentrate the emission(issue) of enormous quantities of rocks of great variety, which they include ignimbritas, sienitas, etc.. The emission(issue), very rapid, produced the emptying of chamber(camera) magmatica and I provoke the collapse of the central dome of the Island, giving as result this enormous boiler, of 18 kilometres of maximum diameter. Simultaneously to the collapse, the depression colmato with new emission(issues) of acid rocks (tufas, ignimbritas, traquitas, riolitas), after what a singular volcanic phenomenon took place(was produced): the injection of big rocks quantities that crossed the preexisting materials, generating a dense mesh of conical dikes or cone-sheet.
Despu à © s of a long parenthesis(bracket) erosivo of some kind of mas of five million anuses of duration, comenzo in the zone the activity of the cycle Roque Nublo. I expel approximately hundred cubic kilometres of acid and basic rocks that the valleys and ravines canalized towards the coast, and that refilled the preexisting relief, building a great volcano of central character. The discharge explosividad and the violence of some of these eruptions they originated powerful mantles of volcanic gaps, at the same time as destru à - to the central part of the volc à n.
After this phase of activity, the constant erosion I dismantle that part of the relief that alone one saw locally affected by volcanic later(posterior) phenomena.
In synthesis, Tejeda's boiler has experimented successively, along his(its) extensive geological history, a contemporary collapse to the end(purpose) of the first cycle magmatico; an excavation erosiva in the Mioceno, during a phase of volcanic stagnation; a landfill of materials of the cycle Roque Nublo and, finally a stage of reexcavation erosiva uninterrupted up to the current importance. This way - his(its) spectacular relief has been formed, with multitude of capricious forms, product of the long performance of the agents erosivos on substrata of varied nature: ravines fitted (Siberio, The Chorrillo, etc.); open valleys (head-board of The Toscon); straits interfluvios (cresteri - to of the Bentayga); tables (It(he,she) Accuses and the Jonquil) and roques (Roque Nublo, Roque Palmos, etc.). The splendid vision of the island of Tenerife has just given to the landscape a very special touch.
The climate of the region is characterized by thermal conditions and pluviometricas changeable. In the springs months and summer demonstrates a marked aridity, with high temperatures, which overcome in occasions all 40 degrees, and scanty rainfalls. During the winter they get down the temperatures, even up to some degrees under zero, and receive(charge) importance the rains, torrential and irregular; the snow can appear in the sections of the way close to the plateau of the Roque Nublo. Sometimes, the trade one overflows from the summit and covers the boiler rubbing the culminating parts, such and since it happens in the Roque Bentayga.
At present it(he,she) dominates the vegetation of bushes. In the high places he(she) reigns the retamar, while in the zones mas you lower the bushes, heterogeneous, it(he,she) is of tabaibas, escobones and tajinastes. In the valleys, associated with the major(bigger) abundance of water, they are frequent the palms, which provide to the hamlets of a great beauty. In the zones of shady, especially in the crags, a vegetation develops tail rupi-, emphasizing the balillo, the lock, the mustard of crag and some endemismos of interest.
The introduced plants(floors) form a part importantly of the vegetable(plant) landscape; tuneras, you whistle and specially almond-trees. This last one distinguishes the region, especially in epoch of flowering.
The peculiar configuration geomorfoligica of this sector of the Island has condemned his(its,her) inhabitants to a relative isolation. This factor, though attenuated today, favorecio the conservation of the traditional landscape. The net of ways of the interior of Tejeda's basin obeys the need of commercial interchanges between(among) the settlers of the numerous payments of the region. The principal axis(axle) of the trade was The Village - Tejeda. For the villagers, apart from the maritime route, it was the way of developing the trade up to the arrival of the highway, from Agaete, towards the half of the present century.
It(he,she) is strong the sensation of which here - the time was stopped, and of which even there are opportunities to savour the cadence of the rural life that it(he,she) marks to develop of the settlers of the basin. One warns the surprise that still wakes up strangers' appearance in us sin payments. Nevertheless, due to the economic strength of the bordering regions, the space has suffered the exodus of his(its,her) settlers, specially of the young mas, with what I come the decadence of the ganaderoia and of the agriculture cereali-stica that was occupying extensive surfaces, judging by the presence of bench-covers that desafi-an in you cause the slope of the pronounced(marked) hillsides. The abandon of the economic traditional practices has taken his(its) sustitucian for tourist flows, or for the implantation(introduction) of the agriculture of exportation, which in the Islands needs the coastal terrazgo for his(its) development.
To all this it is that anadir the existence of picturesque hamlets, with relevant examples of the traditional architecture of the Island. It(he,she) treats ZZZself of us sin nuclei of houses in his(its) most leaned, with narrow alleys.
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