Balearic Sea

The Balearic Sea, Balearic Sea or Iberian Sea also, a portion of the Mediterranean Sea between the Balearic Islands and the Spanish mainland.

Demarcation

The name of the marine region originates nor the Roman Geography, Latin Mare balearicum, or Mare Ibericum, Mare Hispanum, and says the sea, behind which lay the province of Hispania, where the term fully applicable to the whole maritime region off the Spanish coast and the Balearics was seen.

The Balearic Sea has been defined by the International Hydrographic Organization ( IHO ) as an autonomous subdivision of the Mediterranean Sea.

• In the southwest of the Cape San Antonio (38 ° 50 'N, 0 ° 12' O38.8333333333330.2 ) to Cabo Berberia, the southwestern tip of Formentera

• In the southeast, along the south coast of Formentera, then Punta Rotja, the eastern point of the island, the southern tip of Isla Cabrera (39 ° 7 ' N, 2 ° 54' O39.1166666666672.9 ) and Isla del Aire, off the southern tip of Menorca

• In the northeast, the east coast of Menorca to Cabo Favaritx (40 ° 0 ' N, 4 ° 14' O404.2333333333333 ) to Cabo San Sebastian (41 ° 54 'N, 3 ° 10' O41.93.1666666666667 )

According to this definition includes the Balearic Islands to fully marine region.

Hydrology

Main tributary of the sea is the Ebro.