Teneguía

Coordinates: 28°28′18″N 17°51′7″W / 28.47167°N 17.85194°W / 28.47167; -17.85194
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Teneguía
The monogenetic cone of Teneguia in 2012.
Highest point
Elevation428 m (1,404 ft)[1]
Coordinates28°28′18″N 17°51′7″W / 28.47167°N 17.85194°W / 28.47167; -17.85194
Geography
LocationLa Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
Geology
Mountain typeCinder cone[2]
Last eruptionOctober 26 to November 28, 1971 [3]

Teneguía (Spanish pronunciation: [teneˈɣia]) is a monogenetic cinder cone – a volcanic vent which has been active once (in 1971) and has had further seismic activity.[2] It is situated on the island of La Palma, one of the Canary Islands, and is located at the southern end of the sub-aerial section of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, of which Teneguía is just one of several vents.[4]

1971 eruption

This vent was the source of a

volcanic eruption
in Spain, which occurred from October 26 to November 28, 1971.
tourists and forms part of the Monumento Natural de Los Volcanes de Teneguía.[7] Until the 2011–12 El Hierro eruption, this was the last volcanic eruption in Spain, and until the 2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption
, the last volcanic eruption in Spain on land.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Peakbagger". Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  2. ^ a b "La Palma". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  3. ^ "La Palma: Eruptive History". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  4. , retrieved 2021-06-14
  5. ^ "Teneguía, 1971: así fue la última erupción volcánica terrestre en España". El País (in Spanish). 19 September 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  6. ^ "El volcan Teneguía causo daños por valor de seis millones de pesetas" (PDF). La Vanguardia Española (in Spanish): 12. 15 April 1972. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  7. ^ "The Geology of the Canary Islands - 1st Edition". www.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2020-10-08.

Further reading

Scarth, Alwyn; Tanguy, Jean-Claude (2001). Volcanoes of Europe.

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