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Malpais Grande (Big Badland)

The Protected Landscape Malpais Grande is one of the wildest areas of Fuerteventuraand arid, but a great interest and as a geological landscape of the island.
The so-called "badlands" (a "field of lava") is a typical geomorphological element around volcanoes that have erupted with lava "thick" (rich in silica), which did not flowlike typical Hawaiian volcanoes (lava quick and not sticky) and the flow slowly because of its density, the upper zone of the melt is cooled and fragmented, giving rise to a sharp cutting rock.
This protected landscape covers an area of 3,250 ha and is located in the municipalities of Antigua and Tuineje.

It also has the status of Special Protection Area for Birds. The vegetation of this area is exclusively composed of lichens.
In this "field of lava" include three buildings that drove these peculiar volcanic lavas (from north to south): Caldera de la Laguna, with almost 300 meters high and consists of lapillithat were exploited until recently, the Caldera de Liria, of approximately 215 meters and also industrially exploited, and the Arrabales Caldera, 244 meters high and completely unspoilt.
The best way to visit this area is to leave from Tiscamanita and follow a road leading directly to the Caldera de la Laguna, where we can go to the other two boilers. Another way to reach this area is from the Fv-2 road, which passes a few meters from the Caldera of Arrabales

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