WARNING: The Governing Council of the Canary Islands has agreed this Thursday that the island of Lanzarote, including La Graciosa, will rise to alert level 4 starting at 00:00 this Saturday (January 23rd, 2021) due to the "seriousness" of cases of Coronavirus on the island, and especially because of the "speed" in the transmission of infections.
Therefore, to ensure the safety of users and employees, I inform you that for this reason, ALL WALKING TRAIL SERVICES INSIDE TIMANFAYA NATIONAL PARK HAVE BEEN CANCELLED, until further notice. Mind the inconveniences.
Timanfaya, declared in 1974, represents the best natural systems of volcanic origin of the Macaronésica region, and has its origin in the eruptions happened during centuries XVIII and XIX. Between 1730 and 1736 the more important eruptive episodes of the contemporary history of the humanity occurred, by their duration and its dimension. The last eruptive episode took place in 1824, and their destructive power still is vestiges as they are the geothermal anomalies, being reached temperatures of up to 610 ºC to 13 meters of depth. In the National Park of Timanfaya the ecological processes of colonization and biological succession take place.