Lava flows from a volcano as seismic activity increases in recent days in the area on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain on Dec 2, 2021. (EMILIO MORENATTI / AP)

The volcanic eruption on La Palma that has sent spectacular rivers of molten lava running down the slopes of La Cumbre for nearly three months is the longest running on the Spanish island since records began in 1500, experts said on Sunday.

It began on Sept 19 and Stavros Meletlidis, of the Spanish National Geographic Institute, said that was longer than any eruption on La Palma since records started over 500 years ago.

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This AFP graphic showed the Map locating where lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano has reached the sea on the Canary Island of La Palma on Sept 28, 2021. (LAURENCE SAUBADU, TUPAC POINTU / AFP)

Residents just wish it would stop so they could return to normal life.

"People are fed up. As a local Palmero I took a break and went to Madrid to get some air," Juan Ernesto Perez, 57, of Los Llanos de Aridane told Reuters.

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The red-hot lava that lights up the night sky has been disruptive. According to the Copernicus disaster monitoring program, lava flows have damaged or destroyed at least 2,650 buildings, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people from their homes on the island, part of the Canaries archipelego.

Lava flows as the volcano continues to erupt on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain on Nov 29, 2021. (EMILIO MORENATTI / AP)

Lava from a volcano flows destroying a banana plantation on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain on Dec 6 2021. (EMILIO MORENATTI / AP)

Abandoned cats wander in search of food at a road covered by ash and blocked by the lava at the exclusion zone near the volcano on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain on Dec 3 2021. (EMILIO MORENATTI / AP)

In this handout photograph taken on Dec 11, 2021 and released by the Spanish Military Emergency Unit (UME) on Dec 12, 2021, Spanish servicemen clean an ash-covered house in Las Manchas, following the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary island of La Palma. (HANDOUT / UME / AFP)

A fissure is seen next to a house covered with ash on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain, on Dec 1 2021. (EMILIO MORENATTI / FILE / AP)

In this handout photograph taken and released on Dec 12, 2021 by the Spanish Military Emergency Unit (UME), UME members clean ash from houses and roads, following the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary island of La Palma. (HANDOUT / UME / AFP)

Houses remain isolated as lava from a volcano flows on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain on Dec 6 2021. (EMILIO MORENATTI / AP)