Barranco del Infierno or 'Ravine of the Hell' in English is protected nature reserve park with the access limited to a a three hundred people daily and not more. The access is limited to save the natural environment and not cause any human infuence on all the the species of flora and fauna residing here. Here, in the Barranco del Infierno you can serve yourself a scenic hiking on a path that begins 350 m above the level of the ocean. The trail starts in Adeje village, the only village on the South of Tenerife with historical heritage of architecture. This Barranco del Infierno hiking trail will certainly take you around 3-4 hours and you will cover the distance of roughly 6.5 km. It is suggested that you bring appropriate footwear for slippery as well as hostile grounds. We will certainly start from the greater part of Calle de los Molinos, complying with the old pastoral route. You'll pass a few extremely scenic view points and an old mill. Later you walk along the riverbed of the gorge. The altitude difference from 100 to 1300 meters, that is why there's a probability of rainfall, especially in the winter season, and also the temperature can drop a good 10C as we move higher. The very same happens with plants. As you are climbing up you will see bushes of cardons and tabaiba while in the middle part there will certainly be remains of thermofils forests where we can see thorn bushes, mastic trees, dragon trees, wild jasmine and more. In the greater parts there will canary pine trees that shares the location with some other trees like the lucerne or mop tree, constantly at over 600 meters over water level. The Barranco del Infierno nature reserve shelters an abundant and also varied range of animals that consists in over 40 species. You can admire the common hawk, the eagle, the raven as well as the sparrow hawk among the diurnal birds, etc. We can additionally watch various other types of birds such as the turtledove, the hoopoe, the single-coloured swift, the robin, the Moorish partridge, etc. The trail finishes when we reach an outstanding falls, higher than 200 meters.
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