Cave of Winds
Cueva del Viento, the “Wind Cave” in Icod de los Vinos, holds a rare distinction: it is the largest lava tube system in Europe, and the sixth largest in the world, behind Hawaiian systems. You’re inside a volcanic network formed by lava flows from Pico Viejo near Mount Teide, and its layout is unusually complex, with several levels and passages that create a three-tiered maze of geomorphological features. The cave extends for more than 17 kilometres—over 11 miles—and within its lava-walled galleries you can find lava pits and terraces shaped by the way molten rock drained and cooled. It also records life from long before Tenerife’s modern history: fossil remains of the Canarian megafauna have been discovered here, including bones of the extinct giant lizard *Gallotia goliath* and the extinct rat *Canariomys bravoi*. …
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