Cabo de Gata is a cape located in the south of the Iberian peninsula, facing the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to the municipality of Níjar, in the province of Almería, Andalusia, Spain.Ptolemy refers to Cape Gata as Charidemou Acra, which means «carnelian headland.» Later, Aviano, in his Ora maritima refers to him as Iugum Veneris (Cape