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Urcitanus Sinus

Urcitanus Sinus a small bay either on the S. coast of Hispania Tarraconensis or in Baetica, named after the town of Urci. It was separated by the Promontorium Charidemi from the Sinus Massienus on the E. (Mela, 2.6.) Now the bay of Almeria.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.