Geoheritage and Geotourism in the cities: the case of Santiago del Teide (Tenerife, Spain)

• DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-261
• Publication Date: 2020-03-09T12:31:46Z
• Authors: William Hernández; Javier Dóniz-Páez; Monika Przeor; Nemesio Pérez; Pedro A. Hernández
• Keywords: Geotourism; Tourist destinations

<p>The Canary Islands are one of the main “sun and beach” tourist destinations in world. As an example, Tenerife received 2018 more than five million tourists. Even so, on island there some that experiencing a decrease touristic afflux. With aim avoiding decline these initiatives have been raised to promote new products experiences as result diversify leisure offer island. Within variety products, urban geotourism is those alternative modalities may increase Tenerife. Urban aims at exploiting geographical natural elements (volcanoes, cliffs, beaches, ravines, etc.), not wiped out by growth transformation processes. involves also cultural heritage (churches, hermitages, cemeteries, houses, squares, etc.) layout itself.</p><p> </p><p>The this work propose itinerary through historical centre Santiago del Teide (Tenerife, Islands, Spain). For purpose, we selected places directly or indirectly associated with monogenic basaltic eruptions Chinyero (1909 AD) Bilma Mountain volcano (3,000 years BC). municipality located west area 52.21 km<sup>2</sup> population 10,755 inhabitants. The can be divided into two large areas: coast dedicated beach tourism” mid-elevation areas mainly agricultural activities hiking tourism flowering almond trees. documented methodology consists making inventory land forms processes related geomorphological features present its surroundings. This comprises visible architecture town allowed classifying estimating valuable element geoheritage. identification selection based inventoried resources, possibilities it offers distribution. Twelve (Way Virgin Lourdes Bilma) relevance (Church San Francisco Rey, Hermitage Apostle, El Calvario, Casona Patio, CEI Chinyero, Alley Virgin, Eras Rodríguez Guanche Street, Crescent Square, Cemetery Road, Queen's City Hall, La Grama Quarry, Vicente Febles PR Arribas Valley) city were design geotouristic length about 8 km requiring 5 hours walking.</p>