Boats on Mar Menor 2
by Sarah Loft
Title
Boats on Mar Menor 2
Artist
Sarah Loft
Medium
Photograph - Digitally Painted Photograph
Description
This digital painting is from a photograph I took at the small Spanish town of Santiago de la Ribera on Mar Menor, a coastal saltwater lagoon in the region of Murcia.
Per Wikipedia: Mar Menor ( "Minor sea" or "Smallest Sea". The Mediterranean Sea is also called "Largest Sea" [Mar Mayor] in the region) is a coastal salty lagoon in the Iberian Peninsula located south-east of the Autonomous Community of Murcia, Spain, near Cartagena.
Four municipalities lie by the Mar Menor, Cartagena, Los Alcázares, San Javier and San Pedro del Pinatar. With a surface area of nearly 170 km², a coastal length of 70 km, and warm and clear water no more than 7 metres in depth, it is the largest lagoon in Spain.
The lagoon is separated from the Mediterranean Sea by La Manga ("the sleeve", in Spanish), a sandbar 22 km in length whose width ranges from 100 to 1,200 metres, with Cape Palos in its south-eastern vertex making for the lagoon's roughly triangular shape. There are five islets located within the lagoon, namely Perdiguera islet, Mayor islet, Ciervo islet, Redonda islet and del Sujeto islet.
Its relatively high salinity, which aids flotation, and remarkable sporting infrastructures makes it a popular place for a wide variety of water sports.
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February 13th, 2013
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