El Hierro Airport

About El Hierro

El Hierro lies in the south-west of the Canary Archipelago of the Canary Islands. Rising out of the Atlantic to it’s highest peak "Malpaso" (1,501m), the small and remote El Hierro covers an area of just 278 squared km’s. El Hierro has an enormous 1,000 meter high half crater that is open to north. The scenery is varied and the land suitable for cultivating grapevines and for other agricultural activities.

El Hierro retains its mystery. The smallest of the Canary Islands conserves its environment as nature first created it. This is the hidden island.

El Hierro is set on the very edge of the Atlantic, the first man crossed the Island at Punta de Orchilla, marking the furthest point of the known world before the Europeans discovered America.

El Hierro is a little island of only 287 square kilometres and an altitude of 1,501 metres. It offers a landscape of great beauty, more than half of which is protected by the Natural Spaces Act. It has spectacular cliffs of up to 1,200 metres high and twisted lava formations contrast sharply with the gentle rolling hills at its centre. The abundantly lush vegetation is another of El Hierro's treasures.

About El Hierro Airport

El Hierro airport is located in the municipality of Valverde. It has changed life on the island, improving communications with the rest of the archipelago and paving the way to a new type of tourism.

Air traffic is domestic, with the main origin/destination of flights being Tenerife Norte Airport and, to a lesser extent, the airports of Gran Canaria and La Palma.

During 2005, the airport handled 157,945 passengers, 4,300 operations and 174 tonnes of cargo.

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