ROQUE NUBlO CENTRAL GRAN CANARIA

Though it is a little lower in altitude than the island's highest point at Pozo de las Nieves,this spectacular basalt monolith dominates many views in the centre of Gran Canaria. It appears to be the final, irreducible core of a far higher volcanic mountain, formed about 3.5 million years ago, in the island's second great wave of volcanic activity, and long since peeled away by wind, water, snow and ice. One other, smaller rock, El Fraile, stands close to it. There is a footpath from the car park to the rocky plateau from which the Roque Nublo rises, and a footpath right round the little massif.