La Oliva

La Oliva municipality
	Corralejo with dunes
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Canary Islands
Province :	Las Palmas
Island:	Fuerteventura
Coordinates	28 ° 37 ′ N , 13 ° 56 ′ W Coordinates: 28 ° 37 ′ N , 13 ° 56 ′ W
Height :	219 msnm
Area :	356.13 km²
Residents :	26,580 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	74.64 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	E – 35640 (La Oliva) ; E – 35649 (Tindaya) ; E – 35650 (El Cotillo) ; E – 35660 (Corralejo)
Municipality number ( INE ):	35014
administration
Mayor :	Isaí Blanco Marrero ( CC ). (As of 2019)
Address of the municipal administration:	C / Emilio Castellot, 2 ; 35640 - La Oliva
Website :	www.laoliva.es
Location of the municipality

Montaña de Tindaya

Lighthouse at El Cotillo

La Oliva is one of the six municipalities on the Canary Island of Fuerteventura . The administrative center is La Oliva. The uninhabited island of Lobos also belongs to the municipality .

Places of the community

The population figures in brackets are from 2011.

Corralejo (14,914)
Lajares (1,690)
Villaverde (1,679)
La Oliva (1,354)
Parque Holandes (1,075)
El Cotillo (1,126)
Tindaya (602)
El Roque (231)
Vallebron (114)
Caldereta (129)
Majanicho (35)
Isla de Lobos (4)

history

The name La Oliva ("The Olive") is said to come from the abundance of the wild olive tree ( Olea europaea ). In 1708 La Oliva was the seat of the military command. In 1711 the place got its own parish . For a few years Fuerteventura was administered from La Oliva. However, the city lost this position in 1860 to Puerto de Cabras , today's Puerto del Rosario .

landscape

The Montaña de Tindaya with 401 msnm was the sacred mountain of the Majoreros . The youngest volcano on the island is the 420-meter-high Montaña de la Arena , which erupted around 10,000 years ago and its lava has flowed to Lajares . The most recent or fourth series of eruptions can be recognized by the fact that no lime incrustation has yet occurred and only very little weathering has taken place. So this country is also called Malpaís (bad country). The previous third series of eruptions occurred approximately 690,000 years ago.

In the municipality of La Oliva you can find the black Picón spoil heaps. Here General Franco promoted the opencast mining of the lava granulate, which is important for irrigation, as part of a government aid plan for the underdeveloped island in the 1950s . The dune area south of Corralejo has been a nature reserve since 1982 and forms the Parque Natural de Corralejo . The uninhabited island of Lobos has also been part of it since 1987.

The name of the place Villaverde contains the term verde (green), because this village is amazingly green. It is located at an altitude of 200 meters in the damp north-east trade wind . The picón or lapilli , this small, porous stone, can store moisture. This type of field cultivation is called enarenado .

Attractions

The Casa de los Coroneles at La Oliva

The manor Casa de los Coroneles was built in the 17th century on the outskirts of La Oliva in a typical Spanish colonial style. It is adorned with magnificent wooden balconies and side towers with battlements, and the coat of arms of the Cabrera Bethencourt family is emblazoned above the portal. In 1994 the Canarian government acquired the vacant and listed property. Since 2006 it has become a cultural center with a museum and historical archive.
The three-aisled 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 in honor of the Virgen del Rosario . You can visit the picture of the Last Judgment , about 3 × 4 meters in size, which was donated in 1732 by the son of the founder of the Casa de los Coroneles . The church has been a listed building since 1993.
The Centro de Arte Canario cultural center in Casa Mané is a restored mansion donated by Manuel Delgado Camino ( Mané ) for the works of young Canarian artists. The spacious garden of Casa Mané with opuntias and young palm trees is a work of art in itself.
Museo del Grano La Cilla is an agricultural museum housed in the Casa de la Cilla granary .
The approximately 600 meter long Cueva Del Llano de Villaverde lava cave is open to the public. The area above the cave is equipped with natural stones and an exhibition room. From a natural historical point of view, the fossilized remains of vertebrate animals discovered in the cave and an endemic species of spider living there are worth mentioning.
In the Museo Casa Marco in Villaverde you can buy typical island products such as cactus liqueur, mulberry jam, majorero cheese , figs and pottery.
The 18th century chapel in Vallebrón is dedicated to the Señora de los Dolores and San Miguel Arcángel . It is a listed building.

traffic

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

Web links

Commons : La Oliva - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
^ Population figures of the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica
↑ Juan Miguel Torres Cabrera, Patricia Lillo Puig: Guía de campo del Malpaís de la Arena y su entorno (PDF; 25.8 MB). Cabildo Insular de Fuerteventura, 1996, ISBN 978-84-87461-43-9 , p. 9 (Spanish).
^ Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deportes: Casa de Los Coroneles. Bienes de Interés Cultural. Gobierno de Canarias, accessed May 26, 2018 (Spanish).
^ Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deportes: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria. Bienes de Interés Cultural. Gobierno de Canarias, accessed May 26, 2018 (Spanish).
^ Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deportes: Cueva de Villaverde. Bienes de Interés Cultural. Gobierno de Canarias, accessed May 26, 2018 (Spanish).
^ Rolf Goetz, Birgit Borowski: Bildatlas Canary Islands . In: HB Bildatlas . HB Verlag , 2008, ISBN 978-3-616-06500-7 , pp. 88 .
^ Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deportes: Ermita de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores y San Miguel Arcángel. Bienes de Interés Cultural. Gobierno de Canarias, accessed May 26, 2018 (Spanish).

[1] Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).

[2] Population figures of the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica

[3] Juan Miguel Torres Cabrera, Patricia Lillo Puig: Guía de campo del Malpaís de la Arena y su entorno (PDF; 25.8 MB). Cabildo Insular de Fuerteventura, 1996, ISBN 978-84-87461-43-9 , p. 9 (Spanish).

[4] Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deportes: Casa de Los Coroneles. Bienes de Interés Cultural. Gobierno de Canarias, accessed May 26, 2018 (Spanish).

[5] Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deportes: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria. Bienes de Interés Cultural. Gobierno de Canarias, accessed May 26, 2018 (Spanish).

[6] Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deportes: Cueva de Villaverde. Bienes de Interés Cultural. Gobierno de Canarias, accessed May 26, 2018 (Spanish).

[7] Rolf Goetz, Birgit Borowski: Bildatlas Canary Islands . In: HB Bildatlas . HB Verlag , 2008, ISBN 978-3-616-06500-7 , pp. 88 .

[8] Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deportes: Ermita de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores y San Miguel Arcángel. Bienes de Interés Cultural. Gobierno de Canarias, accessed May 26, 2018 (Spanish).