Bandama Natural Park
| Bandama Natural Park Monumento Natural de Bandama |
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| Location: | Canary Islands , Spain | ||
| Specialty: | Caldera | ||
| Next city: | Las Palmas ; Telde | ||
| Surface: | 325.7 ha | ||
The Bandama Natural Park ( Spanish : Monumento Natural de Bandama ) is a protected landscape area in the northeast of the island of Gran Canaria , in the Spanish province of Las Palmas . It consists of two clearly defined units: the mountain peak Pico de Bandama ('Peak of Bandama') and the Caldera de Bandama (' Caldera of Bandama').
geography
Position and extent
The reserve is located about ten kilometers south of the city of Las Palmas and covers a total area of 325.7 hectares . Of this, 264.8 hectares are in the municipality of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , 51.4 hectares in Santa Brigida and 9.5 hectares in Telde . The nature park essentially consists of the 574 meter high Pico de Bandama peak and the caldera to the south of it. This has a diameter of around one kilometer and is 170 meters deep.
traffic
The summit can be reached via a paved serpentine road. Another asphalt road leads to the edge of the caldera. A footpath paved only for the first few meters is the only access to the bottom of the boiler.
geology
The volcanic processes that led to the formation of the Bandama Complex have been dated by geologists to the later Holocene and are therefore considered evidence of recent volcanism in the Canary Islands. The caldera in its current form was created by smaller pyroclastic eruptions and the resulting collapse of the cinder cone about 5000 years ago.
history
Origin of name
The name Bandama is not of Spanish origin. It is derived from the Flemish trader Daniel Van Damme, who ran a very successful winery in the caldera in the 16th century . This man's will is the first written documentation of viticulture in this area of the island. The wine presses that are still partially preserved today and the associated fermentation basins ( lagares ) in which the grapes were mashed are among the oldest of their kind on Gran Canaria.
Archaeological finds
In the north wall of the caldera there is a cave village from pre-Hispanic times. The so-called Cuevas de Bandama (also known as Cuevas de los Canarios ) essentially consist of a storage silo with attached residential caves. These were equipped by the Canarian natives, the Guanches , with stairs, chambers, windows and corridors and thus developed into a cave settlement. This site is remarkable in that caves with artificial interiors are found nowhere else in the Canary Islands, except on Gran Canaria. Also worth mentioning are the so far undeciphered petroglyphs above a cave entrance, which, together with similar finds on Gran Canaria and other islands, suggest the existence of an old Canarian script with Libyan-Berber characteristics. The Cuevas de Bandama can only be reached with local knowledge. They are neither signposted nor is there a feasible way to get there at first glance.
Tourist use
The most popular place in the nature park for excursion guests is the viewing platform at Pico de Bandama , with a view of the crater, the Canarian mountains and the outskirts of Las Palmas and Telde. Another platform within the caldera, with a multilingual information board about the geological history of the volcanic complex, is also very popular. The hiking trail into the caldera basin is rarely used by tourists, as the ascent is very strenuous due to the steep terrain and loose soil.
Web links
- Normas de Conservación. (PDF; 2.7 MB) In: Internet presence of the regional government. Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación Territorial del Gobierno de Canarias, accessed April 8, 2010 (Spanish).
- Caldera de Bandama. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: Guía de Senderos de las Medianías de Gran Canaria. Canarias 7, September 22, 2008, accessed April 11, 2010 (Spanish).
- Monumento Natural de Bandama. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , accessed April 9, 2010 (Spanish).
- Caldera de Bandama, en Gran Canaria. In: pellagofio.com. Retrieved April 8, 2010 (Spanish).
- Telesforo Bravo Expósito: El Campo Volcánico de Bandama. ACEC Viera y Clavijo, accessed April 10, 2010 (Spanish).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The height and depth information comes from the official information brochure Normas de Conservación , published by the Canary Islands regional government. In the travel literature, the height of the summit is often given as 569 meters and the depth of the caldera as 200 meters.
- ↑ Sven Arndt: Pico de Bandama - Development of the volcano complex (diploma thesis). (No longer available online.) Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Institute for Geosciences, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 10, 2010 (short version). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Harald Braem: In the footsteps of the indigenous people . An archaeological travel guide for the Canaries. Verena Zech Verlag, Santa Úrsula 2008, ISBN 978-84-934857-3-3 , Chapter Canary forensic evidence: Gran Canaria, p. 165 .
- ↑ Harald Braem: In the footsteps of the indigenous people . An archaeological travel guide for the Canaries. Verena Zech Verlag, Santa Úrsula 2008, ISBN 978-84-934857-3-3 , Chapter Canary forensic evidence: Gran Canaria, p. 183 .
- ↑ BANDAMA 1_1. (No longer available online.) In: Libyco-Berber Inscriptions Online Database. LBI-Project, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 13, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Antonio Tejera Gaspar, José Juan Jiménez González, Jonathan Allen: Las manifestaciones artísticas prehispánicas y su huella . 1st edition. Gobierno de Canarias, 2008, ISBN 978-84-7947-469-0 , p. 63 ( online [PDF]). Online ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ More granaries on Gran Canaria. (No longer available online.) In: Cenobio de Valerón. Archived from the original on September 10, 2010 ; Retrieved April 10, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Izabella Gawin: Gran Canaria . 40 selected hikes on the coasts and in the central mountains. 3. Edition. Bergverlag Rother , 2008, ISBN 978-3-7633-4000-2 , Chapter 12: On the Bandama volcanic crater, p. 66 f .
