Situation

The Canary Isle group consists of 7 large islands and 6 smaller ones or reefs, stretching approx. 500 km from
east to west (27°38' to 29°25' longitude north) and more than 200 km from north to south (13°20' and 18°9' latitude west), and covering an area of 7499 square kilometres in all.

Fuerteventura, is only 84 km from the African coast, and with a total area of 1,731 square kilometres, it is the second largest of the Canary Isles.