History
The Teide National Park has a large historical value. This place had an important spiritual significance to aboriginal Guanches in the park are important archaeological sites have been discovered. For the Guanches the Teide was a place of worship, thought it was the gate of hell (Echeyde).
The park was declared on January 22, 1954 as National Park which was one of the first in Spain (specifically the third). In 1981 the park was reclassified and established a special legal regime. In 1989, the Council of Europe awarded the European Diploma of Protected Areas, in its highest category. This recognition and conservation management has been subsequently renewed in 1994, 1999 and 2004.
In celebration of 50 anniversary of its transformation into a national park in 2002 began the paperwork to appoint the Unesco World Heritage Site. On June 28, 2007, after five years of work and effort, UNESCO decided to declare the Teide National Park, World Heritage Site in the World Heritage Convention of UNESCO held in Christchurch, New Zealand. Teide National Park is also the end of 2007, one of the 12 Treasures of Spain.
Teide National Park is complementary to the Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, this is mainly due to being in each of them represented the volcanic structures and forms less evolved magmas of such islands (Hawaii) and more evolved and differentiated (Teide).
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