Declared like National Park. The Caldera of Taburiente represents the ecosystem
of the canary pine in a spectacular landscape mainly where the water hurries in beautiful cascades and abound the archaeological rest, in special rock engravings

The Caldera of Taburiente is a summit circus of 8 km. of diameter, whose unevennesses
reach the 2,000 meters between the high point but located in the Roque of Los Muchachos with 2,426 ms and Dos Aguas, when coming out of the Park in the Precipice of Angustias.

The national Park is of volcanic origin, formed in several eruptivos periods. It in the open presents displays formation geologic of high interest almohadilladas lava, volcanic docks,
taps, cones and piroclasicos mantles, emphasize roques fruit of the erosion or avalanches.

In the low zone there are ferruginous water easts that dye
of yellow the beds of the precipices.

The vegetal kingdom this dominated by the pine canary, able to resist the heat of fires
without dying thanks to its heavy crust. Accompanied by amagante and corazoncillo
it forms the characteristic association but.

In the vertical walls of the Park, they surprise the communities to us of plants in form of rosettes of carrosas leaves, called bejeques. The summits of the Boiler are covered by
a scrub called codeso, accompanied to a lesser extent by plants, many of them in danger
of extinction like retamón, bencomia, the violet and tajinastes blue and pink

In the precipices he is frequent to see small forests of canary willow and rest of laurisilva

The vertebrate fauna of the park is rather little, between the birds we can find chova piquirroja, crows and kestrels. The reptiles are represented by the lizard tizón of
showy bluish spots and the salamanquesa, able to move by smooth and vertical surfaces.

The most well-known visit can be made in vehicle until the viewpoints of the Cumbrecita
and Roque of the Muchachos: But we recommended if it has time and it likes to walk, we recommended to him with previous permission to spend the night in the zone of encamped between 2 and 6 nights depending on the time of the year.

It can find more information in the Center of Visitors of the National Park, located in El Paso. This opening every day of the year by the mornings, consists of reception and information, exhibition halls, audio-visual, videoteca and library. Also there are three houses of
information, located in the Cumbrecita, Lomo of the caballos and Roque of Los Muchachos