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Timanfaya was born. Today, the Park is made up of 25 active volcanoes spread over an area of more than 50km², in a setting with wide biological variety that was declared a Spanish National Park in 1974. After Teide National Park in Tenerife, Timanfaya is the second most-visited National Park in Spain.
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Jan 7, 2016 · Discover Timanfaya National Park in Tinajo, Spain: Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.
Apr 21, 2024 · As narrated by our primary source - the parish priest of Yaiza Don Andrés Lorenzo Curbelo - on September 1st, 1730, between 9 and 10 at night, the Earth started to shake and opened up. It was the beginning of a long and wearing eruption that was to continue for 6 years (1730-1736).
What is the history of Timanfaya National Park? Until the 1960s, Lanzarote’s livelihoods were based on agriculture, fishing and goat farming. It was from this moment on that a new source of income arose: tourism.
The volcanic action has been the principal cause for geological formation in Lanzarote, that has its origin about nineteen million years ago and makes it the oldest island of the Canary Archipelago.
A visit to the Timanfaya National Park is a must for every visitor to Lanzarote. The spectacular volcanic landscape, that covers a quarter of the island, was created over six years of near-continuous volcanic eruptions that took place between 1730 and 1736, with a smaller episode in 1824.
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At the end of the 20th century, in 1974, Timanfaya was finally declared a National Park, with its more than 25 volcanoes and an area slightly greater than 50 square kilometers.
