Noticias:

"Ecological" pavement at Puertito de la Cruz and Cofete.

The test carried out today, key to the paving project "without environmental affect" that would respond to a "historical claim".
The Area of Infrastructure, Roads and Territorial Planning of the Cabildo de Fuerteventura, directed by President Sergio Lloret, has carried out today, Wednesday, November 16, a test of application of a consolidating and stabilizing product for the paving, "in an ecological way and without environmental affectation", of the road that runs between Morro Jable, Puertito de la Cruz and Cofete and that is part of the Natural Park of Jandía, in the municipality of Pájara.

 

This is an indispensable preliminary step, as explained by the president during the test, to "give environmental viability" to the project that, from the Infrastructure Service of the Insular Institution, is intended to process to carry out the paving of the road.

 

A paving for which, considering the status of Protected Natural Park that affects the area, it is essential that it is "compatible with the preservation" of the same, which is why a type of "alternative, ecological pavement, which not only avoids any negative environmental effect, but, on the contrary, contributes to positive effects ", The President explained.

 

"It is important that the neighbors and visitors of the Southern Region of Fuerteventura know that we do not forget them and that we are and will continue working to meet all the demands that can be carried out to respond to the historical claims that have been transferred to us by the neighbors of this area of the Island", emphasized the Lloret.

 

In this way, the Insular Institution would respond to the historical demand of the Southern Region with a project that, as expressed by the mayor of Pájara, Pedro Armas, "would be a before and after in his life, so today we want to thank the Cabildo because, finally, actions are beginning to be seen, not just promises as in decades ago. "

 

While waiting for the tests to bear fruit to confirm the consolidation of the project, the municipal mayor wishes that today's act serves "to culminate with this need and historical claim so necessary for both neighbors and visitors to Cofete."

 

Along the same lines, the president of the Cofete Neighborhood Association, Bienvenida Díaz, stressed that "although it is true that there is a train that there was not before, the pressure suffered by this road is incredible; The number of vehicles that transit it triples and quadruples every year and it is no longer enough with the passage of the receiving train every month and a half. "

 

Ecological pavement respecting the natural environment

 

As explained during the application of the test product for the ecological paving of the road, the compound used, despite being able to withstand a traffic similar to that supported by other materials such as asphalt or concrete, unlike these, would not leave an environmental footprint.

 

Among other detailed aspects regarding the product, its powder production was specified, which would avoid affecting hydraulic resources, as well as the absence of polymers, which would guarantee the organic degradation of the compound.

 
Without heavy metals, with permeable materials, which would make the paving suitable for hydraulic filtration, and without silicates harmful to agriculture, the product is made with a type of dehydrated resin capable of providing flexibility to the road, avoiding cracks and expansion joints.

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The tools of the apañada, La Lata or Garrote (I).
To move around the cliffs the majorero inherits from his pre-Hispanic past this phenomenal utensil used in grazing.
The can is used throughout the archipelago, and is in this sense a symbol of Canarian culture. Symbol that is very useful in the grazing of coastal cattle on the island of Fuerteventura, in the following article we extract the full passage of the book by Allende and Edgar, The cattle of Costa de Fuerteventura, an approximation from ethnography, because it is a chapter that seems to us of great beauty both in content and the experiences of farmers

 

"The can or club is a stick used by shepherds both in their daily grazing activity and in the ropes, where its use is fundamental. The use of the can facilitates the transit of shepherds through steep terrain allowing to save ravines, stones or descents more easily. The can is a tool that has been used since time immemorial," the authors explain.

 

"Because it is easier to walk and on hillsides it is better, because you merge with the can, the can is one more foot (...)." (Vicente Hernández Santana, 1946, commissioner of Betancuria).

 
«(...) The clubs of a lifetime, the clubs we say to them, right? The name is tin but we called it the clubs. (...) I every day to go to the goats, to go to fix the goats, which I managed every day, you had to manage them, I always. Without the club no, with the club, that goes up and down many cliffs and much such, and the club relieves you a lot because it is not the same to jump from here on... Throw you down here on your feet to melt with the club that you support with your arms and your feet reach down quietly, do not throw yourself on them and that the club is helping, the can helped us a lot. " (Miguel Viera Torres, 1931, cattle rancher from Morro Jable).
«(...) The can especially is for the apañadas. To fix, those nose up there from here seems like a thing but that's very bad, eh! And there you have the can, you defend yourself a lot because the can ..., you support the can then you defend yourself, bueh! More with the can than without the can in bad places." (Tomás Acosta Cabrera, 1943, commissioner of Antigua Norte).

 

"Yes, the can, the club yes, club we call here the club, we use that to... (...) Those mountains down without stick, without club, without the can, is dangerous. Yes, all my life since I was born, since I was born I remember (...) those of us who know with a can that is a help, to go up not so much but to go down, is that going down on top of your feet on top of the can, jump from one cliff to another, from one stone to the other on the can, That helps you a lot to the feet and to climb the same, you almost merge into it. For us, for me the can is a... The can every time there is a ravine to cross the use and jump on it and on a stone, there is a large stone, a cliff here because the cover and jump on it, that helps you going down and walking, that which helps you, the can you have to know how to carry and is that the can is a help eh! Very good, it helps me a lot those who know how to handle it. (...) of all life I remember them..., all life with cans (...)." (Juan Pérez Viera, 1951, commissioner of Pájara).

 

In the apañadas the can is also used as an aid to tackle cattle and to catch baifos trying to flee.

 

"Yes, the stick too, when you are entering the cattle in the corral you sent back and with the stick the... That for everything he needs the stick, the can yes, really yes." (Juan Pérez Viera, 1951, commissioner of Pájara). 149

 
«(...) The can to catch the baifos is great, that the first thing, before a baifo that was going to escape you put the stick behind the neck and you cut it there, because maybe the baifo goes there and you have not reached to catch it but with the can, the can reaches you there and you squeeze it down there and you take it, You go up the stick there and you take it there, you cut it there and you go and you take it. That I did practice at the time I think that already... You squeeze it there and stick to go for the stick there and you take it." (Maximino Robaina Torres, 1937, cattle rancher and butcher of Betancuria).
«(...) With the can we take the baifos, we scare them away, but the baifos we catch them when they turn to us and we are close we take them with the can." (Vicente Hernández Santana, 1946, commissioner of Betancuria).

 

Can size

 

"The size of the can varies depending on the use and land for which it is intended. On the one hand there are the 'road cans', which are smaller and heavier, and are designed for daily use in grazing on favorable land. Its size is a little larger than a cane, not allowing large jumps but being helpful to overcome small obstacles, "explain Edgar and Allende.

 

"The defense of the pastor is the tin this, although it is tiny, for me it is tiny, because it is for the daily nothing more, and the owner of the tin is also a small shepherd too [laughs]. This is nothing more than a stick of what we were talking about for two or three goats that you have in your house to go grazing them, almost nothing more than a cane, nothing more than a little thing, pass a small baranquillito but to fix no.(Nicolás Herrera Cabrera, 1937, commissioner Antigua Sur).

 

«(...) There are some of those road that call to suppose to do some walk, ansina then they are tiny and not very big nothing more than like a stick to... a little bigger than a cane to go one founding nothing else but that is to make anxious walks ..."(Tomás Acosta Cabrera, 1943, commissioner of Antigua Norte).

 

Noticias:

An international research team has carried out the first study on rhodoliths on the beaches of Fuerteventura.

More than six million rhodoliths are concentrated on the beaches of northern Fuerteventura, where the peculiar shape of these coralline algae has originated the popular name of beach "popcorn". An international team of researchers has carried out the first analysis of their composition and calls to stop their looting, as they are crucial for biodiversity, says the EFE Agency.

 

Scientists from the Hydrographic Institute of Portugal, Natural History Museums of Stuttgart (Germany) and Tenerife, University of La Laguna, University of the Azores, Williams College of Boston and the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME-CSIC) have joined forces in the first detailed study of these rhodoliths.

 

The result is the article "Rhodolith beds and their land transport in Fuerteventura", published in the journal "Frontiers in Marine Sscience", one of whose authors, the curator of Paleontology and Geology of the Museum of Nature and Archaeology of Tenerife, Esther Martín-González, explains to EFE that this work contributes to increasing the current knowledge of rhodoliths in the Canary Islands and offers a baseline for future research as key habitat providers in environments Island.

 
Rhodoliths and rhodolith beds correspond to independent nodules of coralline red algae (Rhodophyta) "and are essential ecosystem engineers, as they produce structurally complex habitats that host distinctive assemblages of highly diverse fauna and flora," adds the researcher.

link to article for YT video - rhodliths shown at about 11.22

https://www.noticiasfuerteventura.com/fuerteventura/a-vueltas-con-los-rodolitos

Radio Sintonia:

1,753 birds will be present at the XVII Ornithological Championship of the Canary Islands.

The Ornithological Association of Fuerteventura has started today the XVII Ornithological Championship of the Canary Islands, which is held until this Sunday, December 13, at the Experimental Farm of Pozo Negro. A total of 1,753 birds from all over the Canary Islands will be present on display.

 

It is a regional competition with the participation of breeders from all the islands. The copies will be judged and scored by judges awarded for each specialty. The enclosure of the Experimental Farm of Pozo Negro will also have information stands aimed at all lovers of the sector.

According to the Ornithological Association of Fuerteventura, the objective is to give impetus to canariculture on the island, with breeders who have been awarded regionally, nationally and even worldwide.

The event is co-organized by the Ornithological Association of Fuerteventura and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, directed by David de Vera, with the collaboration of the Presidency of theCabildo de Fuerteventura, and the municipalities of Puerto del Rosario and Antigua.

Likewise, the Ministry of Environmental Sustainability, coordinated byLola García, collaborates with an information stand in which the most unique wild birds of Fuerteventura such as the hubara, the Saharan corridor or the majorera owl are represented. Their habitats are also represented, through a photographic exhibition.

In addition, the Ministry of Environmental Sustainability distributes among those present some guides for all lovers of ornithology with a description of the most representative species and a file that will be useful for bird watching on the island.

The stand also mentions the work carried out by the Ministry of Environmental Sustainability to conserve the birds of Fuerteventura, with actions to condition water ponds and plant crops to provide steppe species with food and rest. Among the species benefited is the hubara, whose populations are in the process of regression.
Projects are developed for the preservation of the Canarian guirre, with captive breeding in the Biological Station of La Oliva or the maintenance and management of supplementary feeding points or muladares of scavenger birds such as the Canarian guirre. Some actions that are part of the Life Egyptian Vulture Project project for the monitoring of the guirre population.

Hi Fuerte Chums
I am new to this Forum and was hoping for a bit of info.
I’m on my way over to spend Christmas on the rock and being partial to a glass or five of Rosado I was hoping someone could tell me what the selection is like in Aldi. I don’t like the cheap stuff that tastes like bubble gum mixed in a glass of water and i usually pay between €5-10 a bottle.
If any Aldi shoppers or fellow Rose drinkers could possibly post a photo of the Rose wines available or let me know the names of these wines I’d be ever so grateful.
Cheers!

I am trying to find more information about the walk from Plaza Patricio Calero, Corralejo to La Oliva. I have found a very sketchy map which shows no detail at all and various write up's which also give no detail except the path exists. It is listed as route 2 of a 9 stage walk from top to bottom of Fuerteventura. Any help would be much appreciated

Does anyone know if a UK bought amazon fire stick will work in Fuerteventura?

I remember, somewhere, seeing a recommendation for a place in El Matorral that repairs car aircon. I know I can take it to Rayclauto, who are excellent at all things car related, but they use this other place who I’d  prefer to contact direct. Does anyone know the place I am after, or have other recommendations from experience? I’m not that concerned myself, happy to just open all the windows, but friends do grumble when passengers….!

Radio Sintonia:

A tender the works of the pedestrian crossing over the ravine of the Valley of Santa Inés.

The Ministry of Infrastructure, Roads and Territorial Planning took out on October 25 to public tender the works that will allow the layout of an adapted passage for pedestrians in the section located on Coronel Street on the ravine of the Valley of Santa Inés, in the municipality of Betancuria.

 

The project, registered under the Works and Services Cooperation Plan (PICOS) with the municipalities of the island of Fuerteventura, will be an "accessible and safe solution for a road with a reduced width that will allow us pedestrian traffic in safe conditions," said the president and head of the Infrastructure Area, Sergio Lloret.

With this objective, the construction of concrete retaining walls has been projected on the northern margin of the rural road that will allow the cantilevered layout of a sidewalk of about 153 meters in length that will serve to allow pedestrian traffic in safe conditions through space.

The work, according to the mayor of Betancuria, Marcelino Sardegna, will come to "give continuity" to other executions initiated or "about to go out to tender that, as a whole, will mean the enhancement, beautification and improvement of the security of the people". Reason why he wanted to "thank theCabildo de Fuerteventurafor the fabulous idea of taking these recovery projects with all the municipalities and, for the part that touches us in Betancuria, we greatly thank the PICOS that is serving us to make important investments in the whole municipality, "he said.
With a tender base of 349,128.59 euros, the works will have an execution period of four months and its award will be open to the submission of bids until next November 14.

Noticias:

This Thursday from 00.00 to 3.00 in the morning there will be power cuts in Tuineje and Pájara.

In principle the cut for improvements in the network was scheduled for last week and has been moved to this Thursday.
Endesa informs its customers residing in the municipalities of Tuineje and Pájara, on the island of Fuerteventura, that the supply cut scheduled for Thursday, October 30, is moved to Thursday, November 3, in the range from 00.00 to 03.00 hours. This situation occurs as a result of the improvement works in the Transmission Grid that will be carried out by the Redeia group, formerly Red Eléctrica Española (REE). For this reason, Endesa warns its users of this temporary interruption and hopes that when it occurs in the early hours of the morning, the inconvenience that may be caused will be reduced.

 

In this sense, Redeia will temporarily leave the electrical transmission substations of Gran Tarajal 66kV and Matas Blancas 66kV without voltage to carry out repair and adaptation works of the underground section of the 66 kV Las Salinas-Gran Tarajal line on the island of Fuerteventura.

 
The works planned by Redeia in the transport network will mean an interruption of supply to customers and to Endesa's generation connected to the distribution network, affecting a market of some 15,519 customers residing in the municipalities of Tuineje (Tarajalejo, Valle de Tarajalejo, Marco Sánchez, Tamaretilla, Cardón, Montaña Cendida, La Calabaza, Valle de Tesejerague, Tesejerague, Los Adejes, Giniginámar, Valle de Giniginamar, Violante, Mazacote, Piedra Hincada, Diego Alonso, Finca Araña, El Polvorín, La Fuentita, El Charco, El Aceitún Gran Tarajal) and Pájara (Morro Jable, Solana Matorral, Las Gaviotas, Esquinzo, Cañada del Rio, Costa Calma, La Pared, Las Hermosas, Ugán, Tarajal de Sancho, Valle Lajita and Lajita).