Virgen del Pino, Canary pine in El Paso, La Palma, Spain

El Pino de la Virgen is a Canary Island pine in El Paso, La Palma, with a trunk circumference of 7.22 m measured at 1.3 m height, a diameter of about 240 cm and a height of roughly 32 m. Its trunk holds a cavity about 2 m high, 50 cm wide and 40 cm deep. A small chapel built in 1930 stands beside it.

Reports about the pine date from the conquest of La Palma around 1492/1493, when a Spanish soldier saw an image of the Virgin Mary in its branches; other readings say he found a Marian image or statue there. The tree took the name de la Virgen and the Virgin became Nuestra Señora del Pino. A small chapel was built beside the pine at the end of the 19th century, and in 1930 the Ermita was erected next to the tree, where the replacement statue has been kept since.

Every three years since 1955, from August to September, El Paso holds roughly six weeks of festivities for the Virgen del Pino. The high point is the Bajada, when the statue is carried in procession from the chapel down into the village. The tree itself is called de la Virgen, and the Virgin is called del Pino.

The pine stands in El Paso, next to the Ermita chapel built in 1930, where the statue of the Virgin is kept. The tree is fenced off, so it is seen from outside rather than touched. The Bajada procession, held every three years from August to September, draws large crowds to the village.

The trunk holds a cavity about 2 m high, 50 cm wide and 40 cm deep, where the first statue of the Virgin is thought to have stood before it was lost and replaced. The tree was declared a Sitio histórico in 2014. University of La Laguna studies recommended tree surgery in 2008, and the work was carried out successfully after 2016.