La Geria Archives - Walking Lanzarote In Circles

A return visit to the Volcàn Templo La geria area including Montañas Cardona and Cueva de Ortiz. The walk is a good a good 3½ hours or so, mostly flat and for the most part well marked.

All considering we have had quite a dry winter and spring, so we were quite supprised on our return to this area with the variety of plant life flourishing.

We found grapes of course, but also mulberry bushes, guava, figs and tomatoes, all growing and fruiting well with no irrigation mechanisms.

For those interested in identifying the various plants you find on a walk, I have found this web site quite helpful, plantnet.org.

A collection of excellent books about the nature of Lanzarote, naturalanza.com

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Volcàn Templo La geria – History

To read about the history of the area and the small village of Uga, you can checkout the following sites:

The sites are in Spanish, so if it helps I have made an attempt to summarise a few topics of interest in the History section.

There are two walks in the La Geria and Uga area from the same starting point. Walk 1 has a very awkward section marked by a yellow diamond on the accompanying map. It is quite a steep scramble up a loose picón slope to the rim of Montaña Tinasoria. It is not an official trail, but once on the rim you are back on an official path. The views from the top are definitely worth the effort, covering La Geria and the southern reaches of the island.

Walk 2 is the shorter of the two, never leaves the official trail and is well marked paths or dirt roads all the way.

The crater rim of Montaña Tinasoria offers panoramic views over the entire southern reaches of Lanzarote. There are also some interesting ruins and the remains of a quite extensive water catchment, storage and distribution system.