Wildfires are ravaging Spain's Balearic and Canary Islands, where hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes.

Two fires have devastated about 60 hectares of vegetation in the western part of the holiday island of Majorca, in the Balearics. One of the blazes was reported under control. Residents of about 20 houses who had been evacuated as a precaution returned home, a source with the nature protection institute Ibanat said.

But fires have erupted with even more ferocity on the Canary Islands. On La Gomera, firefighters managed to contain a blaze, making it possible for about 60 evacuated people to go back home.

On the island of La Palma, a fire forced the evacuation of about 100 people on Monday.

Firefighters were battling a blaze on Tenerife as well, where 100 people have been forced to leave their homes. Flames entered the Teide national park.

More than 2,000 hectares have burned down or threatened to burn down on Tenerife and La Palma, according to media reports. High temperatures and wind hampered the firefighting effort.

In neighbouring Portugal, five major fires were reported. The three largest of them, which were raging in the north and in Povoa de Santa Iria near Lisbon, were largely under control, authorities said.