Caleta de Famara
| Municipality of Teguise: Caleta de Famara | |||
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 View from the Risco de Famara mountain range
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| Autonomous Community : | Canary Islands | ||
| Province : | Las Palmas | ||
| Island: | Lanzarote | ||
| Coordinates | 29 ° 7 ′ N , 13 ° 34 ′ W | ||
| Residents : | 981 (2011) INE | ||
| Postal code : | 35558 | ||
| Area code: | 35024000200 | ||
Caleta de Famara is a village on the northwestern side of the to Spain belonging Canary Island of Lanzarote . The place belonging to the municipality of Teguise has 981 inhabitants (as of 2011).
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The village is located at the western end of the sandy desert of El Jable , a plain that stretches into the country to the southernmost point of the municipal capital Teguise and separates the Famara Mountains in the north from the Timanfaya National Park in the south. This dry, sandy plain connects directly to the approximately five kilometers long, white sandy beach north of Caleta de Famara. This longest beach in Lanzarote is known among surfers because of the almost constant wind. The Famara massif, the Risco de Famara , rises north of the plain and further to the north forms a steep coast, the highest point of which, with Las Peñas del Chache, is 671 meters. It is also the largest elevation on the island of Lanzarote.
Almost only the main road, the LZ-402 coming from Teguise, is paved. All other roads are sandy tracks with frequent drifts. A small promenade with a small harbor basin was built directly on the coast. There are several fish restaurants here that are known for their Canarian cuisine .
Near the village is the wreck of a cement freighter that ran aground in the bay in 1982. After the loading booms broke off due to corrosion in the early 2000s, only a little metal looks over the surface of the water at low tide .
Behind the beach, Scandinavians built the urbanization Casas de Famara (in the picture below in the foreground), an early holiday home area with semicircular bungalows that was built remotely from the actual village of Caleta de Famara in the 1970s . Locals disrespectfully call these houses goat pens.
The well-known artist and environmentalist in Lanzarote, César Manrique , spent part of his childhood in Caleta de Famara and was inspired by the landscape.
Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's 2009 feature film Broken Hugs was shot in parts on the Famara coast.
View from the mountain range Risco de Famara to Caleta de Famara (in the background)
View from the beach dunes to Caleta de Famara
Promenade with a view of the Risco de Famara
1982 sunk freighter off Caleta de Famara (1998)
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