The henequenes or piteras are just as well adapted to the Majorero landscape as the tuneras. These plants are visible and easily recognizable with the naked eye. Its huge stems, more than 10 meters high, rise up creating a peculiar landscape. Walking through a piteral with its masts, some upright and most of them down, […]
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When we visit a place on a daily basis, we do not pay attention to its peculiarities, the elements that compose it, we do not think about its history. Today we contemplate the exuberant tuneras that grow, wild, in the surroundings of the stately home of Los Coroneles, in La Oliva. Las tuneras in Fuerteventura […]
Fuerteventura is an island where the fields easily turn green after just a few days of rain. During the spring days, when the earth still gives off that characteristic and penetrating smell of humidity, many majoreros go out to the field to look for the precious “criadas”. If you do not live in Fuerteventura, or […]
The tourism that has been developing in Fuerteventura since the 1960s is mainly focused on a single product, “sun and beach”, around which other activities are developed in parallel. Active tourism and nature tourism have been on the rise for a few decades now. There are many people who travel to the Maxorata in search […]
The arid landscape of Fuerteventura, together with the non-existence of wooded areas invites us to think that, on this island, there is hardly biodiversity. However, do not forget that, Fuerteventura has been a Biosphere Reserve since 2009. It has more than 1700 species of animals and 800 plants, many of they are endemic and in […]
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