Eastern Spain
Murcia
Cartagena

Mar Menor

Mar Menor is a coastal saltwater lagoon in the located south-east of the Autonomous Community of , , near . Its name is the opposite of the Mediterranean, which is the Mar Mayor of the region.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Perdiguera Island and Playa de la Hita.

Island
Photo: Nanosanchez, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Photo: Nanosanchez, Public domain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Los Alcázares and San Javier.

Town
Photo: Polosureste, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality and a coastal spa town and former fishing village on the western side of the Mar Menor in the , southeastern Spain.

Town
Photo: El’murciano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town of some 32,000 inhabitants in in the southeast of Spain. Its main claim to fame is the international Jazz Festival held here every year since 1998. The town has also hosted the Spanish Air Force Academy since the 1920s.

Neighborhood
, is a small fishing village with its own individual marina on the Mar Menor, which began as a very small fishing settlement and was later urbanised to allow more holiday homes by the Mar Menor.

Mar Menor

Latitude
37.73434° or 37° 44′ 4″ north
Longitude
-0.79977° or 0° 47′ 59″ west
Open location code
8C9XP6M2+P3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5275216385
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
2513928
Wiki­data ID
Q1553876
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Mar Menor” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “البحر الصغير”
  • Arabic: “مار مينور”
  • Basque: “Mar Menor”
  • Belarusian: “Мар-Менор”
  • Catalan: “Mar Menor”
  • Cebuano: “Mar Menor”
  • Czech: “Mar Menor”
  • Dutch: “Mar Menor”
  • French: “Mar Menor”
  • Galician: “Mar Menor”
  • German: “Mar Menor”
  • Irish: “Mar Menor”
  • Italian: “Mar Menor”
  • Japanese: “マール・メノール”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mar Menor”
  • Norwegian: “Mar Menor”
  • Persian: “مار منور”
  • Polish: “Mar Menor”
  • Portuguese: “Mar Menor”
  • Russian: “Мар-Менор”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Mar Menor”
  • Slovenian: “Mar Menor”
  • Spanish: “Mar Menor”
  • Swedish: “Mar Menor”
  • Ukrainian: “Мар-Менор”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mar Menor”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.