Montaña de la Arena

Montaña de la Arena
	Montaña de la Arena
height	420 m
location	Fuerteventura , Canary Islands , Spain
Dominance	4.2 km → Montaña de Escanfraga
Notch height	240 m
Coordinates	28 ° 38 '2 " N , 13 ° 55' 44" W Coordinates: 28 ° 38 '2 " N , 13 ° 55' 44" W.
Type	Cinder cone
rock	basalt
Last eruption	about 10,000 years ago

The Montaña de la Arena is a mountain in the municipality of La Oliva on the Canary Island of Fuerteventura . It is the youngest volcano on the island.

The mountain is located about 2 km north of La Oliva and just as far west of Villaverde. Its summit is 420 m above sea level and about 120 m above the surrounding land. The oval volcanic cone has a diameter of 700 to 840 m at the base. At its top is a crater 120 m deep and up to 200 m wide, which is connected to a smaller secondary crater in the east. There is another small crater at the northeast base of the volcano. On its southern flank there is a quarry for mining Picón .

During the eruptive phase of the Montaña de la Arena about 10,000 years ago, its lava flows flowed in all directions, but particularly far north to the edge of today's Lajares. The resulting lava field Malpaís de la Arena has an area of 12 km², of which 8.7 km² have been under protection since 1987 as the Monumento Natural Malpaís de la Arena .

literature

Juan Miguel Torres Cabrera, Patricia Lillo Puig: Guía de campo del Malpaís de la Arena y su entorno (PDF; 25.8 MB). Cabildo Insular de Fuerteventura, 1996, ISBN 978-84-87461-43-9 (Spanish).
LA Cueto Pascual, R. Balcells Herrera, JL Barrera Morate: Mapa geológico de España . Scale 1: 25,000, sheet 1086 I / 1087 I – IV: Isla de Fuerteventura. Tostón-Corralejo . Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid 1990, ISBN 84-7840-501-1 , booklet (PDF; 912 kB; Spanish).

Web links

Commons : Montaña de la Arena - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Guía de campo del Malpaís de la Arena y su entorno , p. 9 (Spanish).
↑ Inventario de recursos vulcanológicos de Fuerteventura. Consejería de Turismo del Cabildo de Fuerteventura, 2011, p. 58, accessed on April 7, 2018 (Spanish).
↑ El Monumento Malpaís de la Arena on the website fuerteventuraenimagenes.com, accessed on April 7, 2018 (Spanish).

[1] Guía de campo del Malpaís de la Arena y su entorno , p. 9 (Spanish).

[2] Inventario de recursos vulcanológicos de Fuerteventura. Consejería de Turismo del Cabildo de Fuerteventura, 2011, p. 58, accessed on April 7, 2018 (Spanish).

[3] El Monumento Malpaís de la Arena on the website fuerteventuraenimagenes.com, accessed on April 7, 2018 (Spanish).