Maxorata

Maxorata was the northern of the two indigenous territories of Fuerteventura, an arid island in the eastern Canaries. Its people, known as the Majos, lived in a landscape of sparse rainfall and pasture. At the beginning of the fifteenth century its ruler was Guise, while Ayoze ruled Jandía to the south. In 1405 both accepted the authority of the Norman conqueror Jean de Béthencourt and were baptized, bringing the island under Castilian lordship.