The Jandía Natural Park is located in the south of Fuerteventura. It measures 14,318 hectares and is the largest protected natural space on the island. Although it includes a great variety of environments and landscapes, all of them are equally modelled by the lack of rainfall in the area. Anyone travelling to this corner of the Atlantic should not expect to see green forests and orchards along the sea shore. Fuerteventura is more like a miniature of the Sahara desert which lies just 100 kilometres to the east. This island, and the neighbouring Lanzarote, do not receive the trade winds as they are too close to sea level so the humidity from the mid Atlantic is trapped between the mountains, resulting in the arid landscapes which are so typical of the island.

However, rather than being a handicap, this has made Fuerteventura into a special island. The bare mountains and the barren fields are an inseparable part of the island's landscape and have had a fundamental influence in shaping the personality and culture of the local men and women. Jandía captures the whole essence of Fuerteventura in just a few kilometres. This small peninsula houses the island's only ecosystems, along with craggy cliffs and some of the most stunning beaches on the Archipelago. As well as being like a miniature version of the entire island, it also provides evidence of Fuerteventura's ancients inhabitants by way of the remains of a stone wall which divided Maxorata in two, creating an independent "kingdom" in this small strip of land in the south.

Here the majority of the twelve endemic plant species that grow in Fuerteventura can be found, particularly on the peaks. These include the Fuerteventura thistle, a genuine symbol of the island. This peninsula in the south of Fuerteventura has also been declared a Special Protection Area for Birds. The most illustrious inhabitants are the Egyptian vulture (a threatened species), the Barbary falcon, the buzzard and the kestrel. These large birds of prey generally flock around the bare cliffs of Jandía, a paradise for birds, mixing with other species such as the Houbara Bustard (endemic to Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. Symbol of the fauna local to Fuerteventura), the courser, stone curlew and hoopoe. As a natural park with large maritime spaces, it also offers a temporary resting place, nesting spot or habitual residence for some interesting marine species such as the Cory's Shearwater.

This natural space also boasts a rich marine heritage. The whole coast of the island, and in particular Cofete, features a variety of marine mammals, particularly in summer. These include fin whales, sperm whales, long finned pilot whales and common and bottle noosed dolphins. Another frequent visitor is the loggerhead turtle and, until a few decades ago, the leatherback turtle (the largest of this species), which used Jandía's enormous white sandy beaches to lay their eggs. Sadly, for some years now, there has been no evidence to show turtles using the Fuerteventura coastline as a place to rear their young.

However, the main attraction of this part of the island is indisputably its long sandy beaches. Cofete to the west, and Sotavento to the east, are perhaps the most well-known but along the coast, there are many other small coves and long fine sandy beaches.