Drago Park ( es, Parque del Drago) is a park and one of the main visitor attractions in
Icod de los Vinos
Icod de los Vinos is a municipality in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province), Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands (Spain), located in the northwestern part of the island. Inhabitants of Icod are know ...
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Tenerife
Tenerife (; ; formerly spelled ''Teneriffe'') is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands. It is home to 43% of the total population of the archipelago. With a land area of and a population of 978,100 inhabitants as of Janu ...
. Created at the turn of the millennium, it contains
El Drago Milenario
El Drago, also known as Drago Milenario and Drago de Icod de los Vinos, is the oldest and largest living specimen of ''Dracaena draco'', or dragon tree, in Parque del Drago, Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife, Spain. It is said to be a thousand years ol ...
, a dragon tree thought to be around 1,000 years old, as well as a variety of other native plants.
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The park has an area of around .
It houses the
El Drago Milenario
El Drago, also known as Drago Milenario and Drago de Icod de los Vinos, is the oldest and largest living specimen of ''Dracaena draco'', or dragon tree, in Parque del Drago, Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife, Spain. It is said to be a thousand years ol ...
, the oldest and largest specimen of ''
Dracaena draco
''Dracaena draco'', the Canary Islands dragon tree or drago, is a subtropical tree in the genus '' Dracaena'', native to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, western Morocco, and is thought to be introduced in the Azores. Its closest living ...
'' (dragon tree) in existence,
and one of the symbols of Tenerife, estimated to be between 800 and 1,000 years old.
It also has a variety of other plants that are endemic to Tenerife and the Canary Islands,
including younger specimens of ''
Dracaena draco
''Dracaena draco'', the Canary Islands dragon tree or drago, is a subtropical tree in the genus '' Dracaena'', native to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, western Morocco, and is thought to be introduced in the Azores. Its closest living ...
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cardoons, and
tabaibas.
burial.
and is the main attraction in Icod de los Vinos.
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The erection of a stone wall between the road and the tree when the park was created was controversial, as it prevents the tree from being seen from the nearby Plaza de San Marcos; the compromise was that the stone wall was constructed but with a section of reduced height so that the tree could still be seen from the plaza.
as a world heritage candidate since 2002.
The park is mostly visited by Spanish citizens, followed by German, English and French nationals.