Stage 9: La Caleta - Tamaduste
Description
Return to Tamaduste
From the seawater pools of the coastal village of La Caleta the circular path heads out to the village of Tamaduste, running parallel to the runway of the Los Cangrejos airport.
Next to the seawater swimming pools of La Caleta there is an information panel on the network of trails that shows where the beginning of the trail is. After going into the village briefly, a signpost will show us the way out of this coastal village in a westerly direction along a paved road with a gentle slope.
The asphalt road is replaced by a dirt track that skirts a stone wall, which in turn delimits a farm colonized by scattered shrub patches.
At a junction with a ravine, we will leave behind us the yellow and white signs marking the network of short distance trails and we will walk along the bottom of a gently sloped cliff, following a path that skirts a low stone wall and goes through a landscape dominated by the usual vegetation of tabaiba (Euphorbia sp.), Canary Island sorrel (Rumex lunaria) and prickly pear cactus (Opuntia maxima).
This path reaches a small group of houses and follows the opposite side of the road that leads to La Caleta, parallel to the runway of Los Cangrejos airport.
Leaving behind us the whitewashed building of the shrine of San Juan, a track will take us - among Canary Island spurge (Euphorbia canariensis), tabaibas and typically coastal vegetation - to the village of Tamaduste.
Before getting there, we can make a stop at the viewpoint of the same name situated at the entrance to the village, from which we can see the small inlet around which the village is built.
Profile
MIDE (Method for the Information of Excursions)
Harshness of natural environment- 1. The environment is not risk-free
- 2. There are more than one risk factors
- 3. There are various risk factors
- 4. There are quite a lot of risk factors
- 5. There are many risk factors
Guidance along the route- 1. Well defined trails and crossings
- 2. There is a clearly marked trail and signage
- 3. Requires the identification of geographic features and cardinal points
- 4. Requires off-path navigation
- 5. The trail is interrupted by obstacles that have to be gone around
Route difficulty- 1. Walking on a flat surface
- 2. Trails with different types of path
- 3. Walking on stepped paths or irregular terrain
- 4. The use of hands or jumping over the terrain is necessary
- 5. The use of hands is required to progress
Amount of effort needed- 1. Up to 1 hour of continuous walking
- 2. Between 1 and 3 hours of continuous walking
- 3. Between 3 and 6 hours of continuous walking
- 4. Between 6 and 10 hours of actual walking
- 5. More than 10 hours of continuous walking
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Further information
Los Cangrejos Airport
December 1972 was a red letter day in the history of communication with El Hierro thanks to the opening of the airport to air traffic. The opening of the airport of Los Cangrejos, with a 1000-meter runway, changed the live of the island and gave a big boost to tourism.
Located on the east coast of the municipality of Valverde, in a plain named Llano de los Cangrejos, close to the capital city of the island, El Hierro airport has been renovated over the years, and its facilities and services have been improved through renovation and modernization works, as well as the construction of new buildings nearby. The runway – built in 1968 – was extended in 1977 and 1992.
Air traffic at Los Cangrejos is national, and the origin and destination of incoming and outgoing traffic is mostly Tenerife Norte airport, and, to a lesser extent, the airport of Gran Canaria. In 2010 the airport handled traffic of 170,975 passengers, 4,142 operations and 145 tons of goods (Source: AENA).
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