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Catalan Sea
The Balearic Sea ( endotoponym: ''Mar Balear'' in Catalan and Spanish) is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea between the Balearic Islands and the mainland of Spain. The Ebro River flows into this small sea. Islands and archipelagoes The Balearic islands are divided into two groups: Gimnesias in the northeast, and Pitiusas in the southwest. Gimnesias * Menorca * Mallorca * Cabrera Pitiusas * Ibiza * Formentera Extent The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Balearic Sea as follows: Between the Islas Baleares and the coast of Spain, bounded: ''On the Southwest.'' A line from Cape Sant Antoni, Valencian Community () to Cape Berberia, the Southwest extreme of Formentera (Balearic Islands). ''On the Southeast.'' The South Coast of Formentera, thence a line from Punta Rotja, its Eastern extreme, to the Southern extreme of Cabrera, Balearic Islands () and to Illa de l'Aire, off the Southern extreme of Menorca. ''On the Northeast.'' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balearic Sea Map
Balearic may refer to: *Of the Balearic Islands *The Balearic dialect of Catalan *Balearic horse, a term sometimes used to describe either or both of these horse breeds in the region: **Mallorquín **Menorquín horse *Balearic beat Balearic beat, also known as Balearic house, Balearic, Ibiza house or Ibizan chillout, is an eclectic blend of DJ-led dance music that emerged in the mid-1980s. It later became the name of a more specific style of electronic dance music that wa ..., a style of electronic dance music * Balearic cuisine {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Formentera
Formentera (, ) is the smallest and most southerly island of the Pityusic Islands group (comprising Ibiza and Formentera, as well as various small islets), which belongs to the Balearic Islands autonomous community (Spain). It covers an area of (including offshore islets) and had a population of 10,582 at the Census of 1 November 2011; the latest official estimate (as at 1 January 2019) was 12,111. History The island's name is usually said to derive from the Latin word ''frumentarium'', meaning "granary". The island was occupied in prehistoric times, going back to 2,000–1,600 BC. Archaeological sites from that period remain in Ca na Costa, Cap de Barbaria (multiple sites) and Cova des Fum. The island had been occupied by the Carthaginians before passing to the ancient Romans. In succeeding centuries, it passed to the Visigoths, the Byzantines, the Vandals, and the Arabs. In 1109 it was the target of a devastating attack by the Norwegian king Sigurd I at the head of the "N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marginal Seas Of The Mediterranean
Marginal may refer to: * ''Marginal'' (album), the third album of the Belgian rock band Dead Man Ray, released in 2001 * ''Marginal'' (manga) * '' El Marginal'', Argentine TV series * Marginal seat or marginal constituency or marginal, in politics See also Economics * Marginalism *Marginal analysis *Marginal concepts *Marginal cost *Marginal demand *Marginal product *Marginal product of labor *Marginal propensity to consume *Marginal rate of substitution *Marginal use *Marginal utility *Marginal rate Other * Margin (other) * Marginalization * Marginal intra-industry trade, where the change in a country's exports are essentially of the same products as its change in imports * Marginal land, land that is of little value because of its unsuitability for growing crops and other uses * Marginal model, in hierarchical linear modeling * Marginal observables, in physics; see Renormalization group * Marginal person, in sociology; see Marginalization * Marginal plant, see Bog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balearic Sea
The Balearic Sea ( endotoponym: ''Mar Balear'' in Catalan and Spanish) is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea between the Balearic Islands and the mainland of Spain. The Ebro River flows into this small sea. Islands and archipelagoes The Balearic islands are divided into two groups: Gimnesias in the northeast, and Pitiusas in the southwest. Gimnesias * Menorca * Mallorca * Cabrera Pitiusas * Ibiza * Formentera Extent The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Balearic Sea as follows: Between the Islas Baleares and the coast of Spain, bounded: ''On the Southwest.'' A line from Cape Sant Antoni, Valencian Community () to Cape Berberia, the Southwest extreme of Formentera (Balearic Islands). ''On the Southeast.'' The South Coast of Formentera, thence a line from Punta Rotja, its Eastern extreme, to the Southern extreme of Cabrera, Balearic Islands () and to Illa de l'Aire, off the Southern extreme of Menorca. ''On the Northeast.'' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulf Of Lion
The Gulf of Lion or Gulf of Lions ( French: ''golfe du Lion'', Spanish: ''golfo de León'', Italian: ''Golfo del Leone'', Occitan: ''golf del/dau Leon'', Catalan: ''golf del Lleó'', Medieval Latin: ''sinus Leonis'', ''mare Leonis'', Classical Latin: ''sinus Gallicus'') is a wide embayment of the Mediterranean coastline of Catalonia in Spain with Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence in France, extending from Begur in the west to Toulon in the east. The chief port on the gulf is Marseille. Toulon is another important port. The fishing industry in the gulf is based on hake (''Merluccius merluccius''), being bottom-trawled, long-lined and gill-netted and currently declining from overfishing. Rivers that empty into the gulf include the Tech, Têt, Aude, Orb, Hérault, Vidourle, and the Rhône. The continental shelf is exposed here as a wide coastal plain, and the offshore terrain slopes rapidly to the Mediterranean's abyssal plain. Much of the coastline is composed of lagoons and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulf Of Cádiz
The Gulf of Cádiz ( es, Golfo de Cádiz, pt, Golfo de Cádis) is the arm of the Atlantic Ocean between Cabo de Santa Maria, the southernmost point of mainland Portugal and Cape Trafalgar at the western end of the Strait of Gibraltar. Two major rivers, the Guadalquivir and the Guadiana, as well as smaller rivers, like the Odiel, the Tinto, and the Guadalete, reach the ocean here. The Gulf of Cádiz is located in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean between 34°N and 37°15′N and 6°W to 9°45′W. It is enclosed by the southern Iberian and northern Moroccan margins, west of Strait of Gibraltar. Geology The geological history of the Gulf of Cádiz is intimately related to plate tectonic interaction between Southern Eurasia and North Africa and is driven by two major mechanisms: * subduction associated with the westward emplacement of the Gibraltar Arc and formation of the Gulf of Cádiz accretionary wedge. The current activity of the subduction is unclear, with some advocati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range. Catalonia is administratively divided into four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. The capital and largest city, Barcelona is the second-most populated municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas – Demographia, April 2018 Current day Catalonia comprises most of the medieval and early modern Principality o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Favàritx Lighthouse
The Favàritx Lighthouse is an active lighthouse on the Spanish island of Menorca. See also * List of lighthouses in Spain * List of lighthouses in the Balearic Islands This is a list of lighthouses in the Balearic Islands. The Spain, Spanish archipelago lies at the western end of the Mediterranean Sea. Lighthouses See also * List of lighthouses in Spain * List of lighthouses in the Canary Islands Refe ... References External links Comisión de farosBalearic Lighthouses Lighthouses in the Balearic Islands Buildings and structures in Menorca Lighthouses completed in 1916 {{Europe-lighthouse-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illa De L'Aire
Illa de l'Aire (also ''Isla del Aire'' in Spanish language, Spanish) in an islet on the southeast coast of Menorca, in the Baleric Islands, close to Punta Prima, Sant Lluís. It is administrated by the municipality of Sant Lluís. The island covers 34 hectares and has a circumference of 3.3 km. Its highest point was 15 m above sea level until the construction of the Illa de l'Aire Lighthouse, Illa de l'Aire lighthouse. The island is defined as the most southernly area of the Balearic Sea, a small body of water that is generally accepted a region of the Mediterranean Sea. The island has an endemic lizard subspecies, ''Podarcis lilfordi lilfordi'' (Günther, 1874). On Menorca, it is better known as the ''sargantana negra'' (''black lizard''), though the lizards are able to change their skin colour to blend in with their surroundings. Very few people are actually allowed to land on the island as this would affect the lizards' unadvanced immune systems. Indeed, the Illa de l'Ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valencian Community
The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid with more than five million inhabitants.Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Madrid, 2020. Its homonymous capital Valencia is the third largest city and metropolitan area in Spain. It is located along the Mediterranean coast on the east side of the Iberian Peninsula. It borders with Catalonia to the north, Aragon and Castilla–La Mancha to the west, and Murcia to the south, and the Balearic Islands are to its east. The Valencian Community consists of three provinces which are Castellón, Valencia and Alicante. According to Valencia's Statute of Autonomy, the Valencian people are a ''nationality''. Their origins date back to the 1238 Aragonese conquest of the Taifa of Valencia. The newly-founded Kingdom of Valencia enjoyed its own legal entit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Sant Antoni, Spain
Cape Sant Antoni (Catalan: ''Cap de Sant Antoni''; Spanish: ''Cabo San Antonio'') is a cape in the town of Xàbia, on the north coast of the Alacant Province in the Valencian Land, southeastern Spain. It is located north of the town proper, south of Dénia, and forms part of the southern edge of the Gulf of València, just before it ends at the more southerly Cap de la Nau. It is backed by the Montgó Mountain, of which it is actually an extension, geologically speaking, and ends in 170-meter-high cliffs. It is included in the Costa Blanca. It is part of the Montgó Natural Park, while the surrounding waters are part of the Cap de Sant Antoni Marine Reserve, and there are two plant micro-reserves on land, one at the north cliff face, and the other on a nearby isle. At its tip is an out-of-use lighthouse first operated in 1855, built in an area with several small buildings including a former lookout tower that formed the basis for the lighthouse. Formerly there was also a smal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Hydrographic Organization
The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is an intergovernmental organisation representing hydrography. , the IHO comprised 98 Member States. A principal aim of the IHO is to ensure that the world's seas, oceans and navigable waters are properly surveyed and charted. It does this through the setting of international standards, the co-ordination of the endeavours of the world's national hydrographic offices, and through its capacity building program. The IHO enjoys observer status at the United Nations, where it is the recognised competent authority on hydrographic surveying and nautical charting. When referring to hydrography and nautical charting in Conventions and similar Instruments, it is the IHO standards and specifications that are normally used. History The IHO was established in 1921 as the International Hydrographic Bureau (IHB). The present name was adopted in 1970, as part of a new international Convention on the IHO adopted by the then member nations. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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