Península de Almina
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The Península de Almina is a peninsula making up much of the eastern part of the Spanish
Spain
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 city
City
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 of Ceuta
Ceuta
Ceuta is an autonomous city of Spain and an exclave located on the north coast of North Africa surrounded by Morocco. Separated from the Iberian peninsula by the Strait of Gibraltar, Ceuta lies on the border of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Ceuta along with the other Spanish...

 in Africa
Africa
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. It is dominated by the peak of Monte Hacho
Monte Hacho
Monte Hacho is a low mountain that overlooks the Spanish city of Ceuta, on the north coast of Africa. Monte Hacho is positioned on the Mediterranean coast at the Strait of Gibraltar opposite Gibraltar, and along with the Rock of Gibraltar is claimed by some to be one of the Pillars of Hercules .In...

. The peninsula contains Ceuta's easternmost point, Punta Almina, and is connected to the rest of Ceuta by an isthmus barely 100 metres in width.

The small Isla de Santa Catalina
Isla de Santa Catalina
Santa Catalina is a small island off the north coast of the Península de Almina in Ceuta, Spain....

lies off the peninsula's north coast.
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