Cuna del Alma – Puertito de Adeje becomes a site of geologic interest
After several field campaigns, the recognition and evaluation of the deposits, supported by previous studies carried out by Dávila-Harris (2009), who investigated the record of explosive volcanism associated with the Las Cañadas volcano in the areas of Adeje and Abona, have allowed us to highlight the geological relevance of the outcrops of Puertito de Adeje. These rocks form part of a broader geological group that forms the Bandas del Sur unit, whose importance in the volcanic evolution of the island is significant.
El Puertito de Adeje, in the south of Tenerife, declared a Site of National Geological Interest. (El Dia, 2024)
The Spanish Geological and Mining Institute (IGME) has just declared the Puertito de Adeje, in the south of Tenerife, a Site of National Geological Interest. Specifically, it is an area comprising 170,000 square metres, an area equivalent to 25 football pitches. (El Dia, 2024)
The geology of Puertito de Adeje is now part of the IGME inventory of places of geological interest (El Diario, 2024).
After several field campaigns, the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain included the ignimbrites of the area in the catalogue a few days ago, at the same time that the City Council authorized the works of the controversial tourist project Cuna del Alma (El Diario, 2024).
Cuna del Alma – The Tenerife Island Council says that Adeje and the developer will analyse whether Cuna del Alma is within the area of geological interest
“The president of the Tenerife Island Council, Rosa Dávila, said on Wednesday that it will be up to the Adeje Town Hall and the developer of Cuna del Alma to verify whether the project is within the geological interest site. The leader of Coalición Canaria made these statements two days after the Puertito de Adeje became part of the Catalogue of Sites of Geological Interest of the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME). “We have to see what space and area is being protected,” said Rosa Dávila after the Puertito de Adeje became part of the Catalogue of Sites of Geological Interest of the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain.”
The president of the Cabildo of Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, and the island’s vice-president, Lope Afonso. (EFE, Carla Domínguez)
Demonstration – SalvarElPuertito Instagram post call to action
“We are back on the streets! This time in tourist areas. Five months after the historic demonstrations of 20-A, politicians and institutions continue to support a predatory tourism model. They continue to promote unlimited growth, while the population continues to suffer the consequences: more roads, more hotels, more tourists, more destruction of ecosystems, more precarious work and more poverty. Their hypocrisy is evident: they talked a lot about “rethinking the model” but the problems have not stopped getting worse. They have not even been able to stop projects riddled with irregularities, such as Cuna del Alma, the Chira Soria power plant or the Hotel de La Tejita. For this reason, we ask all those who are aware of the damage suffered by our land to take to the streets on 20-O with more force than ever, to make history again and to make it clear that this has only just begun. We will not stop until we achieve the change that the Canary Islands need.”