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La Palma (Spanish pronunciation:
[la ˈpalma]), also
San Miguel de La Palma, is the most north-westerly island of the
Canary Islands,
Spain. La Palma has an area of 706 km2 making it the fifth largest of the seven main Canary Islands. The total population is about 86,000, of which 18,000 (2003 data) live in the capital,
Santa Cruz de la Palma and about 20,000 (2004 data) in
Los Llanos de Aridane. La Palma has "
sister city" status with
El Dorado Hills, California. With an area of 708.32 square kilometres La Palma is fifth largest of the seven main islands, whilst the
Roque de los Muchachos, at 2,426 metres, is second only to the peaks of the
Teide massif on
Tenerife.
In 1815, the German geologist
Leopold von Buch visited the Canary Islands. It was as a result of his visit to Tenerife where he visited the Las Cañadas caldera and then later to La Palma where he visited the Taburiente caldera, that the Spanish word for
cauldron or large cooking pot - "
caldera" - was introduced into the geological vocabulary. In the center of the island is the
Caldera de Taburiente National Park; one of four national parks in the Canary Islands.
Source: Wikipedia
The model is created at a scale of 1:150,000 with 1.5x vertical exaggeration. It features a built-in base, so it sits perfectly on a desk or in a frame.
Model Data Sources: Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN)