Ruta Sur de los Volcanes en Timanfaya

island of Lanzarote shares with Tinajo the Timanfaya National Park, constituting this one of the main tourist attractions of Yaiza. One of the main recommendations of visits made in this municipality is precisely the visit to the National Park either by car or by booking the typical camel excursions that are usually done in certain areas of the Mountain of Fire.

Close to the ancient volcanic lava flows, the result of eruptions in the 18th century, is the beautiful village of Yaiza, the municipal capital, awarded on several occasions for its care and beauty. Here is the Church of Our Lady of Remedies, the seventeenth century, or the Casa Benito Pérez Armas, although the ideal is to enjoy peacefully a pleasant walk between your white and flowered houses. In the vicinity of Yaiza we recommend you visit Los Hervideros and El Golfo with its natural green lagoon. Or why not, its main tourist center, Playa Blanca, or Puerto Calero or Marina Rubicón, or Salinas del Janubio, or La Gería , or so many other sites ...

in the archipelago. The park is part of the municipality of Yaiza, but also of the adjoining municipality of Tinajo. Timanfaya was declared National Park in 1974, becoming the third protected area of the Canary archipelago.

Timanfaya represents an interesting example of recent volcanism in the Macaronesian Region. These eruptions took place in 1730 and 1736, and finally in 1824 and created spectacular geomorphological structures of great volcanological interest.

The beauty of the Timanfaya National Park lies in the absence of a mantle of vegetation along with the extreme rugosity of the terrain, the impossible shapes, the colors that go from reds, browns and ocher reaching blacks and oranges, in addition to the silhouettes of the volcanoes and an abrupt coastline, in short a Martian spot on the island.

Inside the park you can see a lot of phenomena of volcanic nature, clear sample of the activity that the area presents, you can see geysers, gorse combustion and you could even see how food is cooked in the heat that emanates from the earth. An essential place in Lanzarote.

of semi-spheres of stones stacked on top of each other to protect the vine from the inclemency of the wind, achieving excellent wines in a volcanic soil.

on the island and were declared a protected natural area and considered a site of scientific interest by the Government of the Canary Islands.

There are several elements that make the salt pans one of the most interesting places on the island, the landscape and ecological value joins the complexity of the hydraulic system and the architecture of the salt.

The salinas were built in 1895 by Vicente Lleó Benlliure on some lagoons that were formed thanks to the volcanic eruption that caused barriers of lava to form between the sea and the lagoon and that It has a circumference of 1000 meters.

The Salinas de Janubio in Yaiza highlights the reddish color that predominates thanks to some small crustaceans called Artemia and has a size of about 440,000 square meters of land that produce salt.

Las Salinas is a place of refuge for migratory waterbirds, it is also a place where they nest, thanks to this it has been included in the Network of Special Protection Areas for Birds. One of the most amazing places in Yaiza

striking color, it is located in the Volcanoes Natural Park in the middle of Timanfaya National Park, in the town of El Golfo is within the municipality of Yaiza.

From the name of Charco de los Clicos due to the seafood that used to be in the area and that were edible, currently extinct.

The Clicos has that greenish hue so striking that it makes it stand out from the volcanic landscape of all the blacks and ochres around it due to a type of seaweed that lives in the waters , joined to the sulfur that contains the water.

Around the pond you can find an elevation of the land that corresponds to a crater whose last eruption dates from the eighteenth century, just in front there is a beach of black sand where it is possible to see deposited olivine.

The Charco de los Clicos or Charco Verde has dimensions of 100 meters, the sea connects with it through cracks found in the subsoil. In the northern part of the pond there is a viewpoint from where you can see the whole area of the pool and the beach.