El Carnatge or Carnatge is a coastal natural area (Park, natural steam zone), located in the heart of the Bay of Palma, 5-6 kilometers from the center of Palma de Mallorca, close to Mallorca international airport and connects the area of the Col d'en Rabassa to the town of can Pastilla.
Natural area Carnatge is a small ridge of coastal space which is geologically valuable because in this place remains of Posidonia oceanica, which is a paleontological deposits of the Mediterranean era of the Upper Pleistocene, which allowed paleontologists to study and monitor the climatic and geological evolution of the island of Mallorca.
Also within the natural Park preserved the elements of cultural and natural heritage: Les Cases del Carnatge or La Caserna, parts of former defensive sites: trenches and tunnels; career Mares; geological levels found in the Bay area of Cala Pudent; the place where he found fossils of extinct Balearic goats that lived on the Islands of Mallorca and Menorca, about 5,000 years ago.
Along the coast of the reserve is a small sandy coves and rocky outlets to the sea, a coastal walking trail with access for cyclists and pedestrians, which stretches from Cala Gamba (Cala Gamba), located in the district of es-Col-Dien-Rabassa, the coves de son Cayos (Calo de Son Caios), located in the resort town of can Pastilla.
Along the trail there are several viewing platforms with Seating.
In the Park El Karnage allowed to swim, including the dogs. Although beach facilities are absent, but in high season, wishing to take sun-bathing in the sea in this part of the coast of the island of Majorca quite a lot.
Coast coastal Park seen a small island of Sa Galera also known as the rock of Galera (Illot de la Galera / Galera Sa small island) where there are archaeological excavations, Dating from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC and showing numerous periods of the history of Mallorca.
During the excavation and study of the island, in its territory were found pots of the era of Chalcolithic funerary cave, pieces of pottery, hand-mills, the cast-iron forms, and pottery telyatnikovo and Postylyakov periods, several local tombs of Roman times, the remains of ceramics and glass of the middle ages, the Islamic period and the Catalan of Mallorca, as well as the present.
The island has an area of 12 000 m2 and its perimeter is 180 meters.
Coastal natural space of El Carnatge on the map
