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Mirador del volcán Lomo Negro is one of the viewpoints of the island of El Hierro, in the municipal district of La Frontera. From it one can make out the colourful layers of the steep walls that drop towards the sea. The different colours come from different types of eruption: the ochre rock was formed where magma came into contact with water. It is one of the natural balconies from which the volcanic origin of the island can be read.
Mirador del volcán Lomo Negro is one of the viewpoints of the island of El Hierro and lies in the municipal district of La Frontera. From this natural balcony the eye takes in the colourful layers of the steep walls that fall towards the sea, a cross section in which the eruptive history of the island is laid bare.
The different colours come from different types of eruption, and the ochre coloured rock was formed where magma came into contact with water. El Hierro, with little more than 268 square kilometres and a highest point of 1,501 metres at Pico del Malpaso, holds several such natural balconies from which its volcanic origin can be read, some of them designed by Canarian artists.
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