La Oliva

La Oliva is one of the six municipalities of the Canary Island of Fuerteventura. Administrative center is the village of La Oliva. The municipal area also includes the uninhabited island of Lobos.

Places in the municipality

The population numbers in parentheses are from the year 2011.

• Corralejo ( 14,914 )
• Lajares ( 1,690 )
• Villaverde ( 1679 )
• La Oliva ( 1354 )
• Parque Holandes ( 1075 )
• El Cotillo ( 1126 )
• Tindaya (602 )
• El Roque (231 )
• Vallebron (114 )
• Caldereta (129 )
• Majanicho (35 )
• Isla de Lobos ( 4)

History

The name La Oliva is of the abundant occurrence of the wild olive tree ( Olea europaea) hail from. 1708 La Oliva was the seat of the military command. 1711 was the site of a separate parish. Some years Fuerteventura was administered by La Oliva from. However, this position lost the city in 1860 at Puerto de Cabras, today's Puerto del Rosario.

Landscape

Msnm The Montaña de Tindaya 401 was the Holy Mountain of the Natives. The youngest volcano on the island is 420 meters high Montaña de Arena, has erupted about 4000 years ago, its lava has flowed to Lajares. The youngest and fourth series of outbreaks can be recognized that there is still no Kalkverkrustung and only a very slight weathering has occurred. So this country is also called Malpais (bad country). The previous third series of eruptions took place about 690,000 years ago.

In the municipality of La Oliva to find the black picón - waste dumps. Here General Franco has funded as part of an auxiliary plan of government for the under-developed island in the 1950s, the mining of important for irrigation Lavagranulats. The dune area south of Corralejo is since 1982 a nature reserve and forms the natural park Parque Natural de Corralejo. Since 1987, the uninhabited island of Lobos is one of them.

In the name of the place Villaverde, the term verde (green) plugged in, because this village is amazingly green. It is 200 meters above sea level, in the moisture -bearing north-east trade winds. The picón or lapilli, this small, porous stone, can retain moisture. This type of field cultivation is called Enarenado.

Attractions

• The manor Casa del Coronel was built in the 17th century on the outskirts of La Oliva in the typical Spanish colonial style. Embellished with beautiful wooden balconies and side towers with battlements, above the portal emblazoned the arms of the clan of Coroneles. 1994, we acquired the Canarian Government, the vacant and listed building. It has become a cultural center with a museum and historical archive since 2006.
• The three-nave parish church Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria from the 18th century with a large bell tower is part of the cityscape. It emerged from the first chapel dedicated to the Virgen del Rosario. To visit is the image of the Last Judgment, about 3x4 meters in size, which was founded in 1732 by the son of the founder of Casa de los Coroneles. 1993, this church was, how many appointed on the island, for Bien of Interest Cultural.
• The Cultural Centro de Arte Canario in the Casa Mane is one of Manuel Delgado Camino ( Mane ) donated, restored manor house for the works of young Canarian artist. The extensive gardens of the 'Casa Mane with cacti and young palm trees is an art in itself.
• Museo del Grano La Cilla is housed in the granary Casa de la Cilla Agricultural Museum.
• The approximately 600 -meter-long lava cave Cueva del Llano de Villaverde is publicly available. The area above the cave is equipped with natural stones and a showroom. Noteworthy from a natural history point of view are discovered in the cave, fossilized remains of vertebrates as well as a living there, endemic spider species.
• The Museo Casa Marco Villaverde you get the typical island products such as cactus liqueur, mulberry jam, goat cheese, figs and pottery.
• The chapel in Vallebron from the 18th century dedicated to the Senora de los Dolores.

Traffic

With the harbor in Corralejo, the municipality of La Oliva has an important ferry port, among others to Lanzarote and Lobos.