The Strait of Gibraltar lies between the southernmost tip of Spain and the northwest of Africa. It is an important gateway connecting the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, with a total length of about 90 kilometers. The narrowest part of the canyon is only 14 km, and the widest part of the western canyon is 43 km. The shallowest water depth is 30 1m, the deepest water depth is 1 18 1m, and the average water depth is about 375m m. The sea speed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea via the Strait of Gibraltar is 4 kilometers per hour. It was used by Atlantic navigators in the early years, and the exploration fleets of Mediterranean coastal countries frequently passed through here to reach the Atlantic Ocean, thus completing their exploration. Today, the Strait of Gibraltar is still an important passage from the Atlantic Ocean to Southern Europe, 1, North Africa and West Asia.
The total length of the Strait of Gibraltar is only 58 kilometers, 43 kilometers wide between Cape Trafalgar and Cape spector, and only 13 kilometers wide between Spanish Marocchi Rowe and Moroccan Cape Cires. The average water depth is 3 10/0m.
The Strait of Gibraltar not only connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, but also is the "source of life" of the Mediterranean Sea. It turns out that in the Mediterranean Sea 122 meters deep, there is a thick, cold and salty ocean current flowing westward out of the Mediterranean Sea. After reading this, you may ask, won't the Mediterranean dry up like this? That's true. However, nature has its own laws, and the Mediterranean will not dry up. The Strait of Gibraltar continuously replenishes the Mediterranean Sea with seawater. It turns out that the wind direction in the Strait is mostly easterly or westerly, and the cold air mass entering the western Mediterranean from the north passes here with low-altitude and high-speed easterly winds, which is called the Levant wind by the locals. The Levant winds drive the Atlantic ocean surface current eastward through the Strait of Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean Sea. At the depth of the Mediterranean Sea 122 meters, the flow of this ocean current is greater than that to the west. Therefore, the existence of the Strait of Gibraltar has contributed greatly to preventing the Mediterranean from becoming a shrinking salt country.
The name of Gibraltar comes from Arabic, which means "Tariq Mountain". According to legend, Tariq, an officer who joined the Meyer dynasty, led a team of 7000 people across the sea to attack Spain in 7 1 1 year. After Tariq's army landed forcibly, Tariq stood on a boulder in Gibraltar and commanded the battle, defeating the Spanish army with 6,543,800 men. Then Tariq ordered the construction of Gibraltar Castle here. The name of the Strait of Gibraltar comes from the city of Gibraltar.