Province of Tenerife and the Teide National Park on Tenerife, encompassing Teide, Spain's highest mountain and also an inactive volcano. Province of Tenerife Province of Tenerife, also Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (), is a province of Spain, consisting of the western part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. It consists of about half of the Atlantic archipelago: the islands of Tenerife, La Gomera, El Hierro, and La Palma. It occupies an area of 3,381 km². It also includes a series of adjacent roques (those of Salmor, Fasnia, Bonanza, Garachico and Anaga). Its capital is the city of Santa Cruz
Canary Islands third tallest volcano on Earth on a volcanic ocean island. All the islands except La Gomera have been active in the last million years; four of them (Lanzarote, Tenerife, La Palma and El Hierro) have historical records of eruptions since European discovery. The islands rise from Jurassic oceanic crust associated with the opening of the Atlantic. Underwater magmatism commenced during the Cretaceous, and reached the ocean's surface during the Miocene. The islands are considered as a distinct physiographic section of the Atlas Mountains province, which in turn is part of the larger African Alpine System division. In the summer of