Gulf of Almería

Satellite picture of the Mediterranean shoreline taken during ISS's Expedition 30 featuring the Gulf of the Almería at the bottom

The Gulf of Almería (Spanish: Golfo de Almería) is a bight of the Mediterranean sea,[1] in the southeastern end of the Iberian Peninsula.

It lies between Punta Sabinar and Cabo de Gata. It is shaped as a semicircle opened to the south with a protrusion in its center featuring the mouth of the Andarax river.[2] Scholars placing ancient Urci in Pechina identify the Sinus Urcitanus cited by Pomponius Mela with the Gulf of Almería.[3]

References

  1. ^ Derrotero general del Mediterráneo (PDF), vol. 1, 1873, pp. 224–225 – via CSIC
  2. ^ Bayo Martínez, Antonio (1999). "Tratamiento técnico del borde litoral almeriense" (PDF). Actas de las Jornadas sobre el litoral de Almería: caracterización, ordenación y gestión de un espacio geográfico celebradas en Almería, 20 a 24 de Mayo de 1997. p. 217. ISBN 84-8108-175-2.
  3. ^ García Antón, José (2006). "Buscando a Urci. Una revisión historiográfica y una sugerencia". Antigüedad y Cristianismo. Location: Universidad de Murcia. pp. 107–108. ISSN 0214-7165.
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