Teneguía

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
Map
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 subaerial volcanic eruption in Spain, which occurred from October 26 to November 28, 1971. Earthquakes preceded the eruption. A tourist died as a result of severe intoxication caused by gas inhalation near the volcano after breaking the security cordon established to protect the population.[5] The eruption caused some property damage to roads, crops, and homes.[6] It also destroyed a beach, though a new one was later formed by natural means. Densely populated zones were not affected. The vent has since become an attraction for 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. ^ Carracedo, Juan Carlos; Troll, Valentin R. (2021), "North-East Atlantic Islands: The Macaronesian Archipelagos", Encyclopedia of Geology, Elsevier, pp. 674–699, ISBN 978-0-08-102909-1, 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. Oxford University Press. p. 243 pp. ISBN 0-19-521754-3.


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