The municipality of Teguise has completed the "From the Sea to the River" route project, whose objective is to conserve, rehabilitate and enhance the natural and landscape heritage of the municipality, through the renovation and diversification of tourism activity, taking into account emerging trends.
To this end, the City Council has carried out actions to recover and condition the ethnographic heritage and landscape of Teguise and La Graciosa, investing 107,205 euros of budget for this purpose.
The mayor of the municipality, Oswaldo Betancort, has indicated that this is "one of the examples" of the materialization of a management based on the sustainability of the eco-tourism sector and its professionalization, in order to produce "transformative tourism experiences that seek authenticity and want to recover what is real about our destination, the contact and history of the places".
Path of union of the two "most representative" coasts
The delimitation, signage and enabling of roads of the initiative has enhanced the natural and ethnographic heritage of Lanzarote with the implementation of eco-modules in sections longer than 20 kilometers, and is now emerging as a path that, crossing the intra-island territory of the municipality from south to north (or vice versa), unites the two most representative coasts of the same: the official tourist area of Costa Teguise with the town of La Caleta de Famara.
On its route, it collects the most representative landscapes of the municipality and a string of facilities linked, for the most part, to the use of water, both that from the ocean and materialized in the extinct salt flats, as well as cisterns, maretas, laundries and other facilities associated with primary activities.
In addition, it allows you to enjoy wide views of the islands of Lanzarote and part of the group of islets that make up the Chinijo Archipelago, highlighting two points where it is proposed to stop for observation of the landscape, although the very orography of the island allows wide views in practically the entire route.
The Ecotur Route is part of the Interreg Spain-Portugal MAC 2014-2020 Territorial Cooperation Program for the realization of the Transnational Network of Municipalities for the co-production of a strategy assumed by Teguise together with the 16 remaining partners of the cooperation space.
