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What to see and do in El Paso

What to see and do in El Paso (La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife): 8 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 3 Nature · 3 Historical milestones · 1 Food and drink

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What to see and do in El Paso

El Paso
Village
The most extensive municipality on La Palma and the only one of the fourteen with no coastal strip, as it stretches from the Caldera de Taburiente to the Cumbre Vieja ridge. It broke away from Los Llanos de Aridane in 1837 and received the title of city in 1910.
Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Taburiente
Nature
Declared in 1954, it protects a large depression of erosive origin some 9 kilometres in diameter, most of which lies within the municipality of El Paso. It is home to the archipelago's only watercourse with a permanent flow, the Barranco de Las Angustias, and culminates at the Roque de los Muchachos, at 2,426 metres.
Roque Idafe
Nature
A basalt monolith around 40 metres tall inside the Caldera de Taburiente, venerated by the pre-Hispanic Benahoaritas as a support of the sky.
El pino de la Virgen y la Ermita de la Virgen del Pino
Nature
A Canary pine specimen more than 800 years old, one of the oldest known of the species, declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) and preserved next to the hermitage of the Virgen del Pino. Every three years a triennial pilgrimage, the Bajada de la Virgen del Pino, passes through the municipality.
El Taller de Las Hilanderas y el Museo de la Seda
Food and drink
A hand-weaving silk workshop whose origins go back to the 16th century, when Flemish and Italian merchants introduced the silkworm to the island; it is considered the only hand-loom silk workshop still surviving in Europe. The Museo de la Seda displays its techniques.
La captura de Tanausú
Historical milestone
After landing at Tazacorte on 29 September 1492, Alonso Fernández de Lugo failed in two direct assaults on the Caldera de Taburiente and managed to capture, by trickery, Tanausú, the Benahoarita chieftain of the canton of Aceró, who died during his transfer to the Iberian Peninsula. A monument erected in 1951 next to the Fuente del Pino commemorates the episode.
Grabados rupestres del barranco de Tenisque
Historical milestone
Pre-Hispanic rock carvings next to the municipal cemetery, with parallels in the ravines of Torres, Tenisca, El Verde, Tamarahoya and Tajodeque, evidence of the pastoral Benahoarita settlement of the municipality.
La erupción del volcán de Tajogaite
Historical milestone
On 19 September 2021 an eruptive fissure opened at Cabeza de Vaca, in the municipality of El Paso, starting an eruption that lasted until 13 December of that year: 85 days, the longest documented on the island. The volcano was officially named Tajogaite in February 2023. The lava flows buried 73.8 km of roads and around 3,000 buildings across El Paso, Los Llanos de Aridane, Tazacorte, Fuencaliente and Villa de Mazo, and caused one death from gas inhalation on 12 November 2021.