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Fuerteventura is the second largest of the Canary Isles after Tenerife. From the north to south, between the two capes Punta de la Tinota and Punta de Jandia, it is a full 98 km as the crow flies. It is 30 km across at its widest point, but only 5 km at its narrowest point, the Istmo de la Pared, which separates the main part of the island,
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Little is known of the history of Fuerteventura from the start of the Christian era to the 14th century, when the Conquista began. The culture of the original inhabitants was not unlike the stone age (their Berber ancestors had known metals, but there was no iron on the Canary Isles), and they lived constantly on alert for attacks by Berber pirates capturing slaves for the slave-trade, and for minor volcanic eruptions.
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