An open stretch of undeveloped shoreline on Tenerife's arid southern coast, near El Médano, where volcanic scrubland meets the Atlantic and the trade winds blow steady and strong. Protected from development, it remains one of the island's least built-up coastal landscapes.
La Tejita sits on the southern coast of Tenerife, just beyond El Médano, in a landscape shaped by volcanic rock, dry scrub and near-constant wind. This is the island’s semi-desert south, where rainfall is scarce and the vegetation is low, hardy and adapted to salt spray and drought rather than the laurel forests of the north.
The area has been kept free of the hotel development found elsewhere on this coast, giving it an open, unbroken character rare in southern Tenerife. Low dunes and volcanic outcrops back the shoreline, and the terrain rolls inland into scrubby, ochre-toned ground typical of this part of the island, largely untouched by irrigation or agriculture.
The trade winds that funnel along this stretch of coast are a defining feature, drawing windsurfers and kitesurfers who work the same steady airflow that has made the wider El Médano area one of the Canary Islands’ recognised wind sports zones. Even away from the water, the wind shapes the experience here, bending the scrub and keeping the air markedly cooler than inland pockets nearby.
As a protected natural area, La Tejita offers a sense of the Tenerife coastline before large-scale tourism arrived: open horizons, volcanic ground underfoot, and the Atlantic pushing hard against a shore left largely as it is.
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