- Cueva del Viento
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Cueva del Viento-Sobrado (Wind Cave) underground complex is the largest lava tube in the European Union[1] and one of the largest in the world. It is the fifth largest in the world behind a series of caves in Hawaii.[2] It was created by lava flows from Pico Viejo, next to Mt. Teide. The cave is located in the town of Icod de los Vinos in the north of the island of Tenerife (Spain).
It extends for more than 17 kilometers long and contains three different levels of passageways, all full of geomorphological phenomena such as lava pits and terraces.
The cave is also a place rich in fossils of the "Canarian megafauna". Remains have been found with the bones of Lacerta goliath and Canariomys bravoi, a giant lizard and a rat now extinct. And in several volcanic pipe entries found archaeological remains of the Guanches, the ancient inhabitants of Tenerife.
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Coordinates: 28°20′48″N 16°43′20″W / 28.34667°N 16.72222°W
Categories:- Caves of Spain
- Lava caves
- Show caves
- Tenerife
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