In 1730 a simultaneous eruption of 30 craters affected one third of the island, burying villages and covering much of the most fertile land with a 33 feet thick layer of lava. The eruptions and the devastation were to last for 6 years.
On the image one of these recent craters, montana de las Lapas o del Cuervo, in early sunlight.
© Tom Kisjes
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