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On the fertile plain between Antigua and Tuineje lie several little villages that still live mainly from farming. One of them is Valles de Ortega. The church of Ermita de San Roque, with the neighbouring district administration and school, are surprisingly far outside the village, in the middle of the fields, as they are also used by the more distant settlements of Casilla de Morales and Majada Blanca. In the village itself, there are multi-storey terrace houses along the narrow main street, and building standing close together, both unusual for the rural architecture of Fuerteventura. Another unusual feature is a house front with a balcony painted on for decoration. If you leave Valles de Ortega in the direction of Antigua on the track that runs parallel to the main road, you will come across several ancient-looking molinos (windmills), on whose roofs grass, bushes, and even little trees grow.