The fauna of Lanzarote is best understood through its habitats: coast, ravines, summits, cultivated areas and marine environments.
The fauna of Lanzarote depends on the diversity of habitats created by relief and coastline: birds, reptiles, invertebrates and marine life occupy clearly different spaces.
Among its main reference points are Timanfaya and eruptions, Art and landscape, Adaptive agriculture, which connect landscape, memory and everyday life. Protecting these habitats turns biodiversity into part of island identity.
Key points
Avifauna esteparia del llano
Las llanuras aridas de Lanzarote son habitat de aves esteparias como la hubara canaria, incluida en el catalogo de especies amenazadas por la perdida de habitat.
Fauna submarina de los islotes
Los fondos marinos del archipiélago Chinijo albergan una rica fauna submarina con corales, crustaceos, cefalopodos y peces asociados a arrecifes rocosos.
Cangrejo ciego de Jameos del Agua
Munida iris es el crustaceo ciego endemico que habita el tubo volcanico de Jameos del Agua, considerado uno de los seres vivos mas singulares de Canarias.
Reptiles de las zonas aridas
La Lisa de Lanzarote y otras subespecies de lagartos endemicos habitan los riscos y las zonas de malpais con escasa vegetacion y alta radiacion solar.
Municipalities of Lanzarote
See all →- ArrecifeArrecife is a municipality of Lanzarote, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- HaríaHaría is a municipality of Lanzarote, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- San BartoloméSan Bartolomé is a municipality of Lanzarote, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- TeguiseTeguise is a municipality of Lanzarote, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- TíasTías is a municipality of Lanzarote, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- TinajoTinajo is a municipality of Lanzarote, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.