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Description
La Manga del Mar Menor
A cordon extended along approximately 24 km between Cabo de Palos and Punta del Mojón, which sets natural limits to the saltwater lagoon known as Mar Menor. Originally, what is currently known as La Manga del Mar Menor was a bay open to the Mediterranean; At its ends, reefs of volcanic rocks gradually acted as brakes for sand and sediments carried by sea currents, until forming a sandy column of dunes and wild vegetation and extensive beaches bathed by two seas, the Mediterranean and the Minor. La Manga is a narrow strip of land whose width varies between 200 m and 1 and a half km. It is cut by natural channels that maintain contact between the two seas; The so-called golas allow entry into the Mediterranean water in the lagoon. As such a space, it remained virgin until the 1960s, when the "discovery" of La Manga as a tourist enclave occurred, undergoing a transformation with the urbanization of the area and the construction of tourist infrastructure.
