Windsurfing and Kiteboarding World Cup 2008: Fuerteventura (Spain)

Abstract

This unfortunate island of Fuerteventura, where beneath the peaceful sky and the calm sea we are writing these comments on life that passes and life that remains, measures one hundred kilometres from north to south and twenty five kilometres at its widest point. In the far southwest there is an almost uninhabited peninsula, with a few shepherds wandering in naked loneliness through the bare landscape. This peninsula is known as Jandia or De la Pared (Of the Wall). The wall, or rather the rampart, that gave its name to Jandia Peninsula and of which a few stretches still remain was built by the Guanches to separate the two kingdoms in which the Majorata island, that of the majoreros, this being Fuerteventura, was divided, and to prevent them raiding each other. That’s why, historically speaking, this little piece of Africa lost in the Atlantic allowed itself the luxury of having a peninsula with a Wall like the Great Wall of China.