Spain has countless beautiful beaches, which many tourists identify with the Mediterranean climate. Don’t worry, it’s completely okay to question whether Spain has ocean access, and after today’s article you’ll have no further doubts.
Does Spain have direct ocean access? If so, which ocean?
Let’s start by answering the most important question of the day – does Spain have access to the ocean? Yes. Plainly, it does. At this point, we have to also unravel which ocean it is. Equally plainly, Spain resides by the Atlantic Ocean.
To explain the possible source of confusion, Spain is located near two bodies of water – we are talking Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. As such, Spain has access to sea as well as an ocean, thus requiring clarification at times. In the rest of our material we will look at what parts are adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean.
What parts of Spain have direct access to the Atlantic Ocean?
Now that we know that Spain has direct access to the ocean, we can move on to the next question: which regions of Spain border the Atlantic Ocean?
The Atlantic Ocean borders areas of central, northern and southern Spain. The most important of the bordering regions of mainland Spain include: the Basque Country, Cantabria, Galicia and Asturias. In the continental part of Spain, there are also two bays that are part of the Atlantic border – the Bay of Biscay and the Bay of Cadiz.
One final detail to remember in regards to Spain’s ocean access is in the insular parts of Spain: the archipelago of the Canary islands, a particularly popular tourist spot.
The whole of the Canaries, consisting of islands such as Tenerife, Gran Canaria and La Palma, are all out in the open, completely surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean (temperatures of which fluctuate around 21-23 degrees Celsius in summer, by the way)
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