Montaña Blanca
Volcano Montaña Blanca on Teide
Highest point
Elevation2,748 m (9,016 ft)[1]
Prominence28 m (92 ft)[1]
Coordinates28°16′8″N 16°36′51″W / 28.26889°N 16.61417°W / 28.26889; -16.61417[1]
Geography
Montaña Blanca is located in Canary Islands
Montaña Blanca
Montaña Blanca
Location in the Canary Islands, on the island of Tenerife
LocationTenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Montaña Blanca is a mountain on the Canary Island of Tenerife. Its flat summit on the eastern flank of the Pico del Teide above the edge mountains of the Las Cañadas basin at a height of 2,748 m (9,016 ft).[1] This makes the Montaña Blanca the third highest peak in Tenerife after the Pico del Teide (3,718 m (12,198 ft)) and the Pico Viejo (3,135 m (10,285 ft)).[2]

Formation

The Montaña Blanca is a flank volcano of the Pico del Teide, whose name is due to the beige color of the light-colored pumice on its surface.[2] It was created by volcanic processes that took place around 50 BC, in three phases.[3] Initially, phonolitic lava with a volume of about 0.022 km³ emerged from a west-northwest-east-southeast trending eruption fissure system on the east flank of the Pico del Teide. The eruption then transitioned into an explosive sub-Plinian phase, measuring magnitude 4 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index. Within 7 to 11 hours, phonolitic pumice and ash (approximately 0.25 km³ DRE) descended from a 15 km high eruptive column in a northeasterly direction[3] and covered an area of at least 40 km2.[4] In the third phase, about 0.025 km³ of lava came out, and today's lava dome was formed. The Montaña Blanca subplinian eruption is the only known explosive eruption in the Pico del Teide-Pico Viejo volcanic complex.[3]

Ascent

The Montaña Blanca is an excellent vantage point. It can be easily climbed via a branch from the Sendero trail no. 7 (from the car park on the TF-21 below the Montaña Blanca to the summit of the Teide). The tour can also start at the El Portillo Visitor Center and then take either trails #1 and #6 or #1 and #22 to Sendero #7.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Montana Blanca, Spain". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Montaña Blanca". Gequotravel. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 G. J. Ablay, G. G. J. Ernst, J. Marti, R. S. J. Sparks (1995). The ~2 ka subplinian eruption of Montaña Blanca, Tenerife. Vol. 57. pp. 337–355. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ Francisco J. Perez-Torrado, Juan Carlos Carracedo, Alejandro Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Sebastian Wiesmaier (2013). Juan Carlos Carracedo, Valentin R. Troll (ed.). Eruptive Styles at the Teide Volcanic Complex. pp. 213–231. ISBN 978-3-642-25892-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ "Teide Nationalpark – Wanderwege des Hauptnetzes" (PDF). www.todotenerife.es. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  6. ↑ "Plan der Wanderwege im Teide-Nationalpark" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 March 2017.
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