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Places of interest
1. Monumento Hornos de Cal de la Guirra
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Historical buildings
The Cal de la Guirra Furnaces Complex is located in the municipality of Antigua, on the island of Fuerteventura, (Canary Islands, Spain), in the so-called Caleta de La Guirra, located between the Marshes and the Caleta de la Hondura, and very next to the Beach and Port of Caleta de Fustes.
The set is located at the mouth of the Barranco de Miraflor, which rises in the foothills of Morro de la Casa (357 m), and Montaña Blanca de Arriba (231 m), between them is the Degollada de Miraflor.
Next to its mouth the Barranco divides into two branches, leaving in the middle a plain where the Well is located, composed of three ovens, a warehouse and a housing-dwelling of the lime trees, as well as a cistern.
Places of interest
2. Torre de San Buenaventura
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3. Zona Paleontológica Caleta de La Guirra

In full Costa de Antigua is one of the most interesting places in Fuerteventrua, known as La Guirra paleontological site. This place of special interest is located in the cove of the same name, between the Salinas del Carmen and the Hornos de La Guirra. In the La Guirra Reservoir it offers marine deposits from the Pleistocene and up to 37 different species of marine fossils have been cataloged.
The Paleontological Site of the Guirra have 3 very different zones, of these two correspond to the Pleistocene age of the last interglacial with an age that is around 135,000 and the 75,000 years and the third of the Holocene, of the most recent glaciation with an approximate age of 3,550 years.

The site has an area of about 92,000 square meters and in 2005 it was declared as Bien de Interes Culture. One of the most important jewels that the island of Fuerteventura has and that gives an idea of the archaeological value that the area of Antigua has.

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4. Yacimiento Paleontológico de La Guirra
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5. Salinas del Carmen