Parque Rural de Betancuria

The Betancuria Rural Park covers an area of 16,500 hectares and takes land from 5 municipalities on the island of Fuertevetura, in addition to Betancuria strong>, you will find: Antigua, Pájara, Tuineje and the capital Puerto del Rosario. This natural area is located in the central-western sector of the island and inside is the Ajuy Natural Monument.

This rural park is an immense arid terrain with semi-desert touches of rugged terrain. The landscape stands out for the impressive coppery and ocher tones that give the ravines and mountain escarpments an arid beauty, simply spectacular, to this is added the important geomorphological and ethnographic value of the natural zone.

Within the Betancuria Rural Park are several mountains of medium and low altitude, these are the Morro Jana of 764 meters, the Gran Mountain of 708 meters, the Morro de la Cruz with 676 meters or the Morro de Velosa which has a height of 669 meters and which houses a viewpoint from which can be seen part of the site. The rural park also houses the Ajuy Natural Monument which is a deposit with an incalculable geological value with fossils of extinct animals and marine sediments.

The park also offers other elements such as the Las Peñitas dam, which contrasts sharply with the arid character of the entire area, as well as the Guise and Ayose /> that are named after the two old caudillos majoneros.

With regard to the vegetation of the Betancuria Rural Park is scarce but you can see scrub, dotted with some tamarinds, tabaids or palm trees. The fauna is dominated by birds and it is possible to spot ospreys, kestrels, shearwaters or tits.

The lovers of the trekking can realize routes by the different signposted footpaths that extend by the place and that allow to arrive at the different points of interest that there are by the zone.