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Tindaya Mountain

Discover Tindaya Mountain in La Oliva, Fuerteventura, with its unique rock engravings called "Podomorfos". Learn about the controversial sculpture project and the environmental concerns associated with it.

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Tindaya Mountain

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  1. TindayaMountain DAVID RAMIREZ PEREZ 4ºA ADRIAN CABRERA RODRIGUEZ 4ºA

  2. INTRODUCTION • Tindaya is a mountain located in La Oliva, Fuerteventura. • It has a special historical and archaeological interest because it has a lot of rock engravings. • Tindaya was a sacred place for the ``Majos´´. They carved in the mountain about three hundred engravings with foot shapes, called ``Podomorfos´´.

  3. ``Tindaya´s Case´´ • Tindaya is made of trachyte. This stone ha s an important price, which has made that the stone has been exploited until recently. In 1993 the Basque artist Eduardo Chillida plans a sculpture to be done in the mountain. It would be a big bucket of vacuum inside the mountain. This project caused the reaction of various environmental groups, who said that it would endanger both the structure of the mountain as the engravings.

  4. IMPORTANT ASPECTS Tindaya Mountain has the highest degree of Canary legal protection. It is a:• Natural Monument• Geological Point of Interest• Cultural Interest The Mountain has a high geological value, as it provides essential information about the history of the formation of all the Canary Islands.

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