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Fuerteventura (Spanish: [ˌfweɾteβenˈtuɾa] ⓘ) is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, geographically part of Macaronesia, and politically part of Spain.It is located 97 km (60 mi) away from the coast of North Africa.
It has been the capital of Fuerteventura since 1860. The town's population is 29,160 (2013), [ 2 ] the administrative district's (municipio de Puerto del Rosario) population is 36,744 and its area is 289.95 km².
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In 1479, Portugal and Castile signed the Treaty of Alcáçovas, which settled disputes between Castile and Portugal over the control of the Atlantic. This treaty recognized Castilian control of the Canary Islands but also confirmed Portuguese possession of the Azores , Madeira , and the Cape Verde islands , and gave the Portuguese rights to any ...
For the average Corralejo fisherman, the lack of wind while sailing would have meant an increase in the effort made on a day-to-day basis to get that daily wage to take home, since the fishing areas or zones of the north coast of Fuerteventura are quite far from the harbour and, although there are some closer to the Corralejo area, they weren't ...
23 January – A court in Skopje orders the release of four VMRO-DPMNE officials, namely former Assembly of North Macedonia speaker Trajko Veljanovski, former ministers Spiro Ristovski and Mile Janakieski and former Administration for Security and Counterintelligence chief Vladimir Atanasovski, who were convicted in 2021 and imprisoned for their role in organizing the 2017 storming of the ...
2 1730–1736, 1824 [43] Fuerteventura 0 0 —— No dated confirmed Holocene eruptions, but the freshness of some lavas and some volcanic landforms suggests that they may have been formed in the Holocene. [44] Gran Canaria 11 0 —— [45] Tenerife 42 5 1492, 1704–1705, 1706, 1798, 1909 [46] La Gomera 0 0 —— [41] La Palma 14 8
Antigua is a town and a municipality in the central part of the island of Fuerteventura in the Province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. It has a population of 11,629 (2013), [3] and an area of 250.56 km 2. [1] It is situated 17 km southwest of the capital of the island Puerto del Rosario.