Montaña de Guaza

The Montaña de Guaza Natural Monument is a protected area located in the municipality of Arona, south of the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). Declared Natural Area of National Interest in 1987, in 1994 it was reclassified as a Natural Monument. The protected zone comprises 725.7 ha, being constituted fundamentally by the Montaña de Guaza, one of the most representative exogenous volcanic domes of the island and by the lava flows derived from its eruption, it limits to the west with the tourist resort of Los Cristianos, to the east with the town of Guaza and the urbanization the Palm-Mar, to the north with the road that joins Los Cristianos with Guaza and to the south with the sea. In this place pre-Hispanic remains have been found in the form of caves, remains of ancient cabins and burials. It has been discovered that the antiquity of this natural monument is a maximum of 3.5 million years and a minimum of 0.67 million years.