Editing Canary Islands (section)

=== La Palma ===
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La Palma, with 81,863 inhabitants covering an area of {{cvt|708.32|km2}}, is in its entirety a biosphere reserve. For long it showed no signs of volcanic activity, even though the volcano [[Teneguía]] entered into eruption last in 1971. On 19 September 2021, the volcanic [[Cumbre Vieja]] on the island [[2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption|erupted]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Carracedo |first1=Juan C. |last2=Troll |first2=Valentin R. |last3=Day |first3=James M. D. |last4=Geiger |first4=Harri |last5=Aulinas |first5=Meritxell |last6=Soler |first6=Vicente |last7=Deegan |first7=Frances M. |last8=Perez-Torrado |first8=Francisco J. |last9=Gisbert |first9=Guillem |last10=Gazel |first10=Esteban |last11=Rodriguez-Gonzalez |first11=Alejandro |date=May 2022 |title=The 2021 eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge on La Palma, Canary Islands |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gto.12388 |journal=Geology Today |language=en |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=94–107 |bibcode=2022GeolT..38...94C |doi=10.1111/gto.12388 |issn=0266-6979 |s2cid=246950800 |access-date=27 July 2022 |archive-date=3 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203070622/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gto.12388 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is the second-highest island of the Canaries, with the Roque de los Muchachos at {{convert|2423|m|abbr=off}} as its highest point. [[Santa Cruz de La Palma]], known to those on the island as simply "Santa Cruz", is its capital.