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Climate and Temperatures of Puerto del Rosario / Fuerteventura

 

FACTS AND FIGURES
Fuerteventura is the second largest of the Canary Isles after Tenerife. From the north to south, between the two capes Punta de la Tiñota and Punta de Jandia, it is a full 98 km as the crow flies. It is 30 km across at its widest point, but only 5 km at its narrowest point, the Istmo de la Pared, which separates the main part of the island, Maxorata, from the Jandía peninsular.
Apart from Pico de la Zarza in the south, the highest peak in the western interior ist the Atalaya mountain (Betancuria), which is 724m high.

 

Aguas Verdes is literally “at the end of the world”. Beyond Llanos de la Conception, a narrow road leads along a dry barranco to a couple of weekend houses and the holiday club on the west coast.There are no restaurants, no shops, no nightlife here. Nothing but endless distance and solitude, unspoilt nature, steep cliffs in the waves of the Atlantic, gentle or violent depending on the weather. As impressive a sight as ever: the remains of the wreck of the JUCAR, booming hollowly as the waves hit it.

This is where Jean de Béthencourt and Gadifer de la Salle disembarked in 1402. The two conquerors pushed on through the valley of Vega de Río Palmas, tall palm-trees above them,

Betancuria

The island’s former capital lies nestled in an idyllic valley, through which, up to the 16th century, a mountain stream flowed all the year round. Relatively protected from attack by pirates, the town nonetheless never achieved the importance normally associated with a capital.

Casillas del Angel

Not far from Puerto del Rosario, the main road to Betancuria, stretches the long, drawn-out village of Casillas del Angel. The church of Santa Ana, built in 1781 and not far from the main road, is easy to overlook, but if you stand in front of it on the sleepy main square surrounding by trees, with the school behind you, the massive black façade above the main entrance to the otherwise entirely white building is impressive.

The Villa Winter in Cofete / Fuerteventura

is a villa located in the area around Cofete, in front of the mountain range of Jandía and in the peninsula on the southwestern part of the island of Fuerteventura.