Costa da Morte

The Costa da Morte ( Galician, Spanish: Costa de la Muerte, " Coast of Death " ) is located between Malpica west of Corunna and the Cape Finisterre part of the coast of Galicia (Spain ) in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It was given its name because of the difficult conditions for navigation and the resulting shipwrecks and dead.

The coast line are preceded by no islands, it borders the Atlantic Ocean. The largest bays are the Rías de Camariñas and corms y de Laxe, however, are incised less deeply into the country as the Rías Altas the northeast and the south Rías Baixas.

The Costa da Morte is on the westernmost part of the coast of Spain. Your westernmost point is Cape Touriñán, known, however, is that about 20 kms to the south of Cape Finisterre. Running there from the Camino a Fisterra, a coming of Santiago de Compostela continuation of the pilgrimage. Fisterra is the Galician name of the cape, he derived as the Spanish Finisterre from the Latin finis terrae ( end of the earth ) from, indicating Roman and pre-Roman legends from the end of the world.

Several oil spills from tanker the Prestige accident in 2002 affected the ecosystem of the coast.

The country was Christianised in the name Jakobi, nevertheless the inhabitants preserved traditional ideas (Santa Compaña, the giant Pedras de Abalar and the oscillating stones or that the wind wild nightmares of its own).