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Fuerteventura PROPERTY

property in fuerteventura, fuerteventura informationFuerteventura is without doubt the emerging Property Market of the Canary Islands. With property still priced at realistic and favourable rates. This island is a certainty for investment in property with many pre-construction properties available at low prices.

About the Island of Fuerteventura

Fuerteventura, is the second largest of the Canary Islands. Situated in the North Atlantic at 28°20' north, 14°00' west, the elongated island has an area of 1660 km². It is part of the province of Las Palmas and is divided into six municipalities: Antigua, Betancuria, La Oliva, Pájara, Puerto del Rosario and Tuineje.

Fuerteventura is on the same latitude as Florida and Mexico and temperatures here rarely fall below 18C or rise above 24C. The island is a paradise for sun, beach and water sports enthusiasts.

The summer Trade Winds and winter swells of the Atlantic make this a year-round surfers' paradise. Sailors, scuba divers and big game fishermen are all drawn to these clear blue Atlantic waters where whales, dolphins, marlin and turtles are all common sights.

Fuerteventura boasts the longest beaches in the archipelago. There are no fewer than 152 beaches along its coastline - 50 kilometres of fine, white sand and 25 kilometres of black volcanic shingle.

History of Furteventura

The island is widely believed to be the oldest of the Canary Islands. Its strange form was created out of a series of volcanic eruptions many thousands of years ago.

The first settlers are believed to have arrived here from North Africa - the word Mahorero or Maho is still used today to describe the people of Fuerteventura and comes from the ancient word 'mahos' meaning a type of goatskin shoe worn by the original inhabitants. They lived in caves and semi-subterranean dwellings, a few of which have been discovered and excavated revealing relics of early tools and pottery. In antiquity, the island was known as Planaria, among other names, in reference to the flatness of most of its landscape.

The first tourist hotel was built here in 1965 followed by the construction of the airport at El Mattoral, heralding the dawn of a new era for the island. Fuerteventura, with its 3,000 sunshine hours a year, was placed firmly on the world stage as a major European holiday destination.