Volcán de La Corona is a high extinct

volcano A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are ...

on the Canary Island of

Lanzarote Lanzarote (, , ) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located approximately off the north coast of Africa and from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering , Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the i ...

(

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), near the village of Yé in the municipality of Haría. Its eruption around 4000 years ago covered a large area of the northeast of the island with lava, creating the

Malpais de la Corona Malpais may refer to: * 6370 Malpais, a main-belt asteroid * Malpais, Costa Rica Malpais (9°36'03 N, 85°08'36 W) is a town in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica which began as a fishing and cattle-farming village, and has become popular among surf ...

and two of the island's most-visited geological attractions, the

Cueva de los Verdes Cueva de los Verdes (Spanish for "Verdes' cave", from the "Verdes" family) is a lava tube and tourist attraction of the Haria municipality on the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands (Spain). The cave lies within the Monumento Natural del ...

and the Jameos del Agua.

References

Rogers, B. and S. (2005). ''Travellers: Lanzarote & Fuertaventura'', Peterborough: Thomas Cook Publishing. Volcanoes of the Canary Islands {{CanaryIslands-geo-stub