Sendero Las Charcas De Erjos
The Erjos ponds are one of the few wetlands on Tenerife, occupying former earth and aggregate pits worked in the 1970s and 1980s between the municipalities of El Tanque, Los Silos and Buenavista del Norte. Once they began to fill in the rainy season they became a key spot for birds, which use them to feed, rest and breed. The circular trail that runs past them crosses laurel forest and opens views towards Mount Teide.
Erjos was a farming and grazing district that later turned to earth quarrying. Those extractions, carted off to plantations in the north and south of the island, left a landscape of hollows that fills with water in wet periods and forms the ponds. On an island with very few wetlands, the result is a singular spot where aquatic species uncommon on Tenerife gather.
The best known circular route takes about two and a half hours and combines the pond setting with a walk into the laurel forest of Monte del Agua, dominated by monteverde and fayal brezal vegetation. Along the way you may spot the two pigeons endemic to the Canaries, the rabiche and the turqué. Several stretches open onto a panorama of Mount Teide, and the same trailhead connects with other waymarked paths in the district.
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