Ajuy is a small remote
fishing village
A fishing village is a village, usually located near a fishing ground, with an economy based on catching fish and harvesting seafood. The continents and islands around the world have coastlines totalling around 356,000 kilometres (221,000 ...
on the west coast of
Fuerteventura in the
Canary Islands. It is part of the municipality
Pájara
Pájara is a municipality in the southwestern portion of the island of Fuerteventura in the Province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands as well as the name of its largest town. Its population is 20,931 (2013),[Norman
Norman or Normans may refer to:
Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norm ...]
Jean de Béthencourt
Jean de Béthencourt () (1362–1425) was a French explorer who in 1402 led an expedition to the Canary Islands, landing first on the north side of Lanzarote. From there he conquered for Castile the islands of Fuerteventura (1405) and El ...
landed in 1402 in order to conquer the island for the Spanish crown.
''Puerto de la Peña'' is a small settlement of Ajuy that used to serve as a port of the old island capital of
Betancuria
Betancuria is a small town and a municipality in the western part of the island of Fuerteventura in the Province of Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. The population is 811 (2013),[lime kiln
A lime kiln is a kiln used for the calcination of limestone ( calcium carbonate) to produce the form of lime called quicklime (calcium oxide). The chemical equation for this reaction is
: CaCO3 + heat → CaO + CO2
This reaction can take p ...]
. The limestone from Ajuy was considered particularly pure and was shipped from this place up until the second half of the 19th century.
Ajuy is today a popular tourist excursion destination to visit the deep and dramatic caves carved into the softer parts of the limestone cliffs by ocean winter storms.
Demographics
Gallery
File:Cuevas de Ajuy 2016 05.jpg, Cuevas de Ajuy 2016
File:Pájara - Ajuy - Monumento Natural - Cuevas 01 ies.jpg, Cuevas de Ajuy 2012
File:Cuevas de Ajuy 2016 06.jpg, Cuevas de Ajuy 2016
File:Cuevas de Ajuy 2016 02.jpg, Cuevas de Ajuy 2016
External links
Ajuy, the hidden gem of the wild West Coast of Fuerteventura(in English)
References
Beaches of the Canary Islands
Populated places in Fuerteventura
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