Monumento Natural Malpaís de la Arena
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Monumento Natural Malpaís de la Arena
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| location | north of La Oliva , Fuerteventura | |
| surface | 8.708 km² | |
| WDPA ID | 555524072 | |
| Natura 2000 ID | ES7010023 | |
| Geographical location | 28 ° 38 ' N , 13 ° 56' W | |
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| Setup date | June 19, 1987 | |
| Framework plan | Normas de conservación del monumento natural del Malpaís de la Arena | |
| particularities | youngest lava field in Fuerteventura | |
The Monumento Natural Malpaís de la Arena is a natural monument in the municipality of La Oliva on the Canary Island of Fuerteventura .
history
The Malpaís de la Arena is the youngest lava field in Fuerteventura. It was created around 10,000 years ago by the eruption of the Montaña de la Arena volcano , whose lava flows spread over an area of 12 km² in all directions. Of this, 8.7 km² have been under protection since 1987, when the Paraje Natural de Interés Nacional de Malpaís de La Arena nature reserve was established. Within its limits are the central cinder cone of the Montaña de la Arena and the entire lava field with the exception of the northernmost lava tongues near Lajares. When the Canary Islands were reclassified in 1994, it was granted the status of a natural monument. In 2001 it was recognized as a “ Site of Community Interest” according to the Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive ( habitat type 8320 “Lava fields and cavities”).
Flora and fauna
The vegetation on the still young and poorly eroded lava field is sparse, but contains some endangered and protected species. In smaller cracks and sediment deposits grow broadleaf spurge ( Euphorbia obtusifolia ), shrub-Dornlattich ( Launaea arborescens ), the Kleinia Neriifolia ( Kleinia neriifolia ) and on Lanzarote and Fuerteventura endemic herb anica Rutheopsis . In addition, a rich lichen flora has settled, which mainly consists of species of the genera Roccella and Ramalina .
Two of the species listed in Annex II of the Habitats Directive are present in the area: a subspecies of Burchard's fly flower ( Caralluma burchardii ), which is only found on some Canary Islands, and the purpurarium skink ( Chalcides simonyi ), one endemic to Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and Lobos living lizard species.
The Canary Pipit ( Anthus berthelotii ), the Northern Gray Shrike ( Lanius excubitor ) and the Canary Treacher ( Saxicola dacotiae ) are considered important bird species . In the Cueva de las Palomas, a cave on the northern slope of the Montaña de la Arena, bones of the Olson's shearwater ( Puffinus olsoni ) have been found, which probably only became extinct after Spanish conquerors had reached the island in the 15th century.
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).
- Monumento Natural Malpaís de la Arena , Documento informativo, Gobierno de Canarias, 2007 ( PDF ; 2.3 MB, Spanish)
Web links
- Malpaís de la Arena nature reserve on the visitfuerteventura.es website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Malpaís de la Arena in the European Nature Information System (English), accessed on April 19, 2018.
- ↑ a b NATURA 2000 data sheet “Malpaís de la Arena” , accessed on April 20, 2018
- ↑ O. Ramirez, JC Illera, JC Rando, J. Gonzalez-Solis, JA Alcover, C. Lalueza-Fox: Ancient DNA of the Extinct Lava Shearwater (Puffinus olsoni) from the Canary Islands Reveals Incipient Differentiation within the P. puffinus Complex . In: PLoS ONE . Volume 5, No. 12, 2010, e16072. doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0016072
- ^ Julian P. Hume: Extinct Birds . Bloomsbury, London and New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-4729-3744-5 , pp. 72 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).