Western Mediterranean Sea

These waters lie between the eastern coast of Iberia and the Pityusic Islands of Ibiza and Formentera. To the north, the Balearic Sea occupies the space between the peninsula and the rest of the archipelago; to the south lies the open western Mediterranean. The channel beside Ibiza joins the two bodies of water. Cape La Nau on the Iberian shore and the islands opposite it mark the approaches to this passage.