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31-05-2023, 07:36 PM
Radio Sintonia:
Corralejo, a living dune park.
The Natural Park of Corralejo is one of the many landscapes of the island of Fuerteventura that are presented to man as a natural spectacle.
A natural area under threat
The area, declared a Natural Park by Law 12/1987, of June 19, on the Declaration of Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands (classification that was maintained with Law 12/1994, of December 19, on Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands) is currently more threatened with extinction than any other of the protected natural spaces of the Canary Islands. There are three elements on which the above assertion is based:
a) To the north, the urban growth of the nucleus of Corralejo hinders the circulation of the winds and the natural access of the sand from the sea to feed the dunes of Corralejo.
b) Two large hotels, built in the seventies, constitute a visual obstacle in the surrounding natural landscape, as well as being a brake on the passage of sand.
c) In the West, urban development continues with projects for the construction of a ring road, a golf course and several housing estates.
These three elements act negatively against one of the main values of the area: the landscape.
The dunes of Corralejo represent one of the few living dune fields in the Canary Islands, and the only one on the island of Fuerteventura in which the dunes reach a great development. They make up a space whose natural values are fundamentally defined by geomorphological processes: The geological interactions between volcanism and wind dynamics are a notable example here.
The origin of the sand that makes up the dunes of Corralejo is exclusively marine. The sand is contributed by the sea from a current heading north that also finds on the island of Lobos an obstacle that partially diverts it to the southwest, giving full in the area that today occupies the population of Corralejo.
Two points have been identified through which the sand that constitutes the current jable entered: the coves located today in the urban area of Corralejo and the stretch of coast between Punta de Tivas and Playa de los Matos. From these points the sand circulates in a southerly direction until, when it reaches the vicinity of Montaña Roja, it meets the malpaís of the Montaña de los Apartaderos, at whose level the barrier effect of these obstacles directs the sand towards the Southeast, disappearing again into the sea in an area where 500 meters deep are reached, Very close to the majorera coast.
Source: Commission for Territorial Planning and Environment of the Canary Islands
Corralejo, a living dune park.
The Natural Park of Corralejo is one of the many landscapes of the island of Fuerteventura that are presented to man as a natural spectacle.
A natural area under threat
The area, declared a Natural Park by Law 12/1987, of June 19, on the Declaration of Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands (classification that was maintained with Law 12/1994, of December 19, on Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands) is currently more threatened with extinction than any other of the protected natural spaces of the Canary Islands. There are three elements on which the above assertion is based:
a) To the north, the urban growth of the nucleus of Corralejo hinders the circulation of the winds and the natural access of the sand from the sea to feed the dunes of Corralejo.
b) Two large hotels, built in the seventies, constitute a visual obstacle in the surrounding natural landscape, as well as being a brake on the passage of sand.
c) In the West, urban development continues with projects for the construction of a ring road, a golf course and several housing estates.
These three elements act negatively against one of the main values of the area: the landscape.
The dunes of Corralejo represent one of the few living dune fields in the Canary Islands, and the only one on the island of Fuerteventura in which the dunes reach a great development. They make up a space whose natural values are fundamentally defined by geomorphological processes: The geological interactions between volcanism and wind dynamics are a notable example here.
The origin of the sand that makes up the dunes of Corralejo is exclusively marine. The sand is contributed by the sea from a current heading north that also finds on the island of Lobos an obstacle that partially diverts it to the southwest, giving full in the area that today occupies the population of Corralejo.
Two points have been identified through which the sand that constitutes the current jable entered: the coves located today in the urban area of Corralejo and the stretch of coast between Punta de Tivas and Playa de los Matos. From these points the sand circulates in a southerly direction until, when it reaches the vicinity of Montaña Roja, it meets the malpaís of the Montaña de los Apartaderos, at whose level the barrier effect of these obstacles directs the sand towards the Southeast, disappearing again into the sea in an area where 500 meters deep are reached, Very close to the majorera coast.
Source: Commission for Territorial Planning and Environment of the Canary Islands
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