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Pico refuge view, a great show to watch. Clouds and winds create forms and the altitude is a great architect.
It was about a few hundred thousand years ago when Pico (the highest cone in the photo) erupted from the bottom of the ocean and created Fogo. Since then, it got back to life quite a few times.
In the first months of 1995 the elders of Chã das Caldeiras – the village extending through the volcano’s crater - became to feel uneasy. It had been windy for 11 days straight and occasional shakes of the earth beneath them grunted warnings that something was about to happen. On a day in which musicians from Santiago had climbed the volcano to make a video, the first fissure opened free. Soon, toxic gases began to spew, stones propelled several thousand meters high and incandescent pieces the size of cashew nuts started falling in Chã. It was time to run down to Mosteiros, the nearest village by the sea.
The population of Chã das Caldeiras stayed in refuge for six months. After that, contradicting government’s orders, they returned home where they now grow coffee, apples, vineyards and make excellent Manicon, the only wine produced in the whole of Cape Verde’s islands.
Pico Tesorero (2572 m) is the pyramidal peak in the centre of the photo (not the nearer pointed outcrop to the right). On its summit the provinces of Cantabria, Asturias and León meet.
Spain: Picos de Europa, Macizo Central (Los Urrieles), Horcados Rojos (col at 2344 m), 23 May 2017.
