Pajara
Pajara municipality has the greatest length of coastline in Spain. Pajara village is a small, sleepy but attractive place with an amazing burst of trees and bushes compared to elsewhere on the island and even a road lined with rose bushes. There are lawns, a freshwater swimming pool and just outside the Pajara town hall sits a fine old disused camel driven waterwheel - sometimes for tourists they havea donkey working it -and close to that is the leafy church square.
The church of Iglesia Nuestra Senora de
la Regla was built between 1687 and 1711 and is one of
the most beautiful on Fuerteventura. It has impressive aztec stone carvings
above the main entrance. One unusual aspect of these is that these
sculptures, along with similar ones in La Olivia, are unique to the Canary
Islands. The two naves inside the church
Pajara has a children's playground and the municipal swimming pool, which is open in the summer, is the only freshwater pool on the island.
Pajara once finished in the top ten of Spain's prettiest villages competition.
Pajara village, although having a population of only about 700, is of administrative importance to the tourist centres on the Jandia peninsula.
The municipality of Pajara includes the towns and villages of Morro Jable, La Lajita, El Cardon and Ajuy and although the ayuntemiento is in Pajara, by far the greatest concentration of people is around the region of Morro Jable. If you live in Morro Jable and need an official document, you will often have to travel into Pajara.
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