National parks Fuerteventura

National parks Fuerteventura

Corralejo's Parque Natural de las Dunas (Dunes Natural Park), an area of supreme natural beauty that is a protected nature reserve.

This natural park is an area of supreme natural beauty that is protected from environmental damage and further development by law.

It lies right on the front line of the Corralejo beach, one of the most fascinating beaches on the island of Fuerteventura, and it is surrounded by impressive white sand dunes.

Both Island of Lobos and the sandy plain or jable of Corralejo are of great significance to avifauna, having been designed by SEO/Birdlife as IBA routes (Es 336 Lobos Island and Es 337 Corralejo Jable).

The sandy plain or jable is, due to its extension, the predominant environment although inland plains of different sustrata (earthy and/or rocky), as well as lava fields, can also be found. All of them with a slight slope and vegetation communities where shrubs (Aulaga Launaea arborescens, Saltwort Salsola vermiculata, Suaeda subspecies and Box Thorn Lycium intricatum predominate. This landscape is the resulLimonium sp. Photo: V. Quilist of the extreme aridity of the environment and of the impact of extensive cattle grazing (mainly goats).