Fuerteventura carnival

Dressed locals on the move
Good mood
Children's drum group parade
Surf camp carnival celebration in Morro Jable

Carnival is also celebrated in Fuerteventura. Here is some information, experiences and tips for celebrating Carnival in Fuerteventura.

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As on all Canary Islands, Fuerteventura also celebrates carnivals.
The Canary Islands have a long carnival tradition. It's not a joke: the Tenerife Carnival is the second largest in the world after the one in Rio de Janeiro.
One of the reasons for this is that the Canaries feel more belonging to South America.

Of course, the Canary Islands belong politically to Spain and thus to Europe, but in the history of the Canaries, the settlement of America and especially South America plays a major role. Thanks to trade winds on the Atlantic, the fastest way to sail to America is always past the Canaries.
Columbus already used the Canary Islands as a stopover to take provisions on his way to America.

So already in Columbus times there were Canarian citizens who emigrated to South America. This trend continued in the centuries that followed.
The Spanish of the Canary Islands is more similar in dialect and pronunciation to the Spanish of South America than the Spanish spoken on the mainland.
Due to economic crises in your home country, there are many other South Americans living in the Canary Islands.
 

Where to celebrate Fuerteventura Carnival?

But now back to the actual topic of this article. After all, it's about the Carnival in Fuerteventura.
Fuerteventura naturally has fewer people than the large main islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria. Even Lanzarote has more residents than Fuerteventura. Nevertheless, there is a long carnival tradition on Fuerteventura and for many residents the carnival is probably the most excited holiday.

What distinguishes the Fuerteventura Carnival most from those of the other Canary Islands? If you want you can celebrate a whole month of carnival in Fuerteventura. The reason for this is very simple:

The whole truck for the move, the takeaways and carousels, the marquees and all the rest of the infrastructure that you need for such a festival is not duplicated on a rather sparsely populated island like Fuerteventura.
That is why the carnival moves from place to place. The first carnival celebrations usually take place in Corralejo in the north of Fuerteventura, the last ones in the south of Fuerteventura with us in Morro Jable.
 

Carnival in Morro Jable

So if you've been to a different carnival party in Fuerteventura every weekend for a month, you can visit the carnival party in Morro Jable as the finale.
As already mentioned at the beginning, the Canary Island and, of course, Fuerteventura are more influenced by South American culture and so drums and samba rhythms are also an integral part of the carnival here with us.

The carnival celebration lasts over a week. Every evening there are different events in the village and in the marquee in the port of Morro Jable.

The highlight of the carnival in Morro Jable is of course the big parade that starts on the promenade in Jandia, continues through the town of Morro Jable and then ends in the port of Morro Jable. Here in the harbor right on the water, there is also the large marquee in which live bands and dance groups perform. There is a small fair with carousels and takeaways. The party on this evening almost always goes on until the wee hours of the morning. The following evening the large sardine is buried in the sea, a carnival tradition in the Canary Islands. After that there is fireworks.
 

My conclusion

Which day would be better than today's 11.11. to write a little about the Fuerteventura Carnival?
In short: the Carnival on Fuerteventura is part of the South American culture in the Canary Islands. For over a month you can dance to live music and samba drums in different places and get to know the hospitality and joie de vivre of the inhabitants of Fuerteventura. All this in summer temperatures and not seldom directly on the water like at the big party in the port of Morro Jable.