Path Cuevas Negras-Monte del Agua-Las Moradas

Municipality: Los Silos
Aproximate time: 6-7 Hours
Maximun Height: 1018 m
Minimun Height: 107 m
Distance (Km): 10,3 

Area Information

This path passes for the high zone of the municipality of Los Silos. Cuevas Negras (Black caves) and Las Moradas (abode), they were a homestead  of those  nowadays stay its walls in foot, some constructions are better preserved than others. But the whole example of the adjustment to the way and of Canary architecture.

Cuevas Negras was a way used as a route to link between the municipality of Los Silos and Santiago del Teide, later joining it with El Tanque. Las Moradas had also been  a former hamlet, and its way also was used as a link to connect Los Silos with the high zone of the municipality. This roadway  is of ends of the 19th century.

Cuevas negras

The path passes across these two royal ways, staying nowadays great part of the stone pavement, which was improving the communication of the coast with the summit, being able to take products between both zones, apart from being routed for the persons' traffic and animals.

As for the vegetation of the zone we can see the barbusano (Apollonias barbujana), laurels (laurus nonbile), bencomias (benbomia bracgustachya), etc, all autochthonous species. Whereas the fauna of the zone, we find the birds, being the most common, La paloma turqué (Columba bollii) and rabiche (Columba junoniae).

Description of the Path

The drop of the Path

To come to Los Silos, we must take the highway TF-5, direction Icod de Los Vinos. Once come to this point, we follow the sign that Garachico says. Spending Garachico's municipality, we find Los Silos.

We begin the path in the general road of Los Silos. If it goes away in own vehicle, there is a zone of parkings in the same road, and in public transport, there is a stop rightly in the beginning of the same one, line 363 from Puerto de la Cruz) y 107 (from Santa Cruz). Here we find different cartels that  indicate us the paths that are found in this street, being signposting during the whole path. Every certain sections are the signs of correct or wrong path, and also signs of foot that it is found in the crossings to indicate that way must be continued.

Cuevas Negras´Path

We take this road where it is put up signs by the different cartels, choosing the path of Cuevas Negras. The beginning started in a zone of housings, with asphalt, later to continue in a way of estates, a boundary. All this section of the way we start by ascending, not finding any flat zone, but everything is a slope, which it is paved. 

Initially on the same one, we can see a few washers. During the ascension we can see different houses of traditional typology, which some of them are in very good condition, for lack of the roof, but having in foot four walls. Also along the way we see the gardens, which have been occupied by grasses. During the tour, we can see the big landscapes that it is found in the zone.

On having come to the high part of this path, we can see up to where the fire come, which took several municipalities in the summer fire of 2009. Still it is appreciated the smell to burn, but already we see a little recovered zone. We finish this part coming to a few houses of Erjos's zone. Here we return to see the signs and continue for the one that says Monte del Agua.

View of Los Silos

During this part of the distance, the place is moderately flat, we do not find any pronounced raise. We can see the local vegetation, and the landscapes of the zone it goes down this part of the island. This part is crossed during a few kilometres

After not finding any sign, since the way does not possess bifurcation, we come to the part where we find the way of Las Moradas. Here it is started getting down, nevertheless and with a difference of Cuevas Negras, in this path we find some sections in what we are walking in pain, and the way this one you upset stone pavement, up to the zone of the homestead. This tour does not possess many vegetation as that of Cuevas Negras, for what in heat day, there would no be sorrow shade. During the whole distance we see the different mountains formed in the ravine, and also we come through for  houses and gardens.

Walls of a house, in Cuevas Negras

On having finished the path we come to the same point of the item, doing this tour of a circular form.

This tour that has been done of circular form, but they are three different paths. The First one of them is that of Cuevas Negras, which ends in Erjos. Then El Monte del Agua that begins in this locality (it has its final point in Las Portelas, in Buenavista), and Finally Las Moradas that also its end is in El Monte del Agua. They can be done of individual, or joint like that form enjoying different landscapes in the same tour.

Las Moradas