Jandía is an area and a peninsula covering the whole southwestern part of the island of Fuerteventura

Fuerteventura

Fuerteventura , a Spanish island, is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. It is situated at 28°20' north, 14°00' west. At 1,660 km² it is the second largest of the Canary Islands, after Tenerife...

 in the Canary Islands

Canary Islands

The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...

 forming the westernmost and the southernmost points on the island. It is mainly mountainous and rocky and has less vegetation than some areas of the island, including palm trees and some plants. The peninsula is entirely in the municipality of Pájara. The peninsula features Fuerteventura's tallest mountain, Pico de Jandía or Pico de la Zarza, that rises to an elevation of 807 m. Jandía also has a point in the southwest named Punta de Jandía and a touristic spot named Playa Jandía as well as a football/soccer team and Morro Jable in the southcentral part.

The northern portion of the peninsula features a five-kilometre isthmus named Istmo de la Pared and this forms the narrowest part of the island. The western coast has some of the most beautiful and sandiest beaches in Fuerteventura and these are also used by surfers.

In the northwestern coast, Jandía has a small fishing village of Cofete and further up, the Villa Winter

Villa Winter

Villa Winter is a villa located in the area around Cofete, Canary Islands, in front of the mountain range of Jandía and in the peninsula on the southwestern part of the island of Fuerteventura. The villa is modeled after a villa first built in 1893 in the Black Forest by an engineer Gustav Winter...

 (pronunciation: VEEN-ter) (named after Gustav Winter) is near the mountain.

External links

• Morro Jable information, map and photos http://www.fuerteventura-infos.de/fuerteventura-report/jandia_report.htm
• Jandia Jandia information and photographs
• Panoramic photo of Jandia and Fuerteventura