Mediterranean sea: The intercontinental Sea

It surrounded by heavenly bays of three continents, the Mediterranean Sea gives the impression to be the private spa of the inhabitants of said areas. Among the southern zone of Europe, the West of Asia and the African north are found this water and they conform the largest interior sea of the world.



The Mediterranean Sea, belonging to the Atlantic Ocean, communicates to the water of the Red Sea and the Black Sea by straits and diverse channels of that part of the global geography.

Literally, and in various languages, signifies “sea in the middle of the lands”, which is a just denomination by its location in the map.

This sea, old from times, has been navigated powerful populations or empires as the Phoenicians, Roman and, also, Greek, who they believed that its water were the unique navigable in the world, when they surpass these through the Strait of the Gibraltar, where they believed to find only a current, they discover the immensity of the ocean. It would be able to say then that the Mediterranean was the sea only acquaintance of the Old Age.



The Mediterranean Sea is found in a zone of subtropic climates, what facilitates its tourism and enjoyment. All their climatic seasons are commodes, with a hot summer, a winter moderate and a rainy but not cold spring. This explains something of the why their coasts so are inhabited, some in a permanent way, of agricultural form and industrialized as of also tourist form.

Their biodiversity is one of their main characteristics, with their enormous fauna as an approximate one of 62 types of amphibians, 179 of reptiles, 184 of mammals, of which the majority they are endemic. Though the birds do not have that characteristic, also they are various in species, between stable and migratory, 150, like a figure reckoned. The flora that understands this zone is also important, comparable to the fauna, in which emphasizes the Mediterranean pine.

At present the Mediterranean Sea is threatened for attacks of the hand of the man, like the over-fishing or the contamination, also the excess is population in the seaboards, what brings as consequence the global warming-up by these zones.


Already it seems natural that the man destroy the natural beauties, gradually he happens in each spot that still he subsists in our land. If the biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea still fails to extinguish is because is so rich that needs more than some as many evils intentions. Europe, Asia and Africa see to be united through its water, and is work of these 3 continents to protect it.