The Gulf of Oristano (, ) is a

gulf A gulf is a large inlet from an ocean or their seas into a landmass, larger and typically (though not always) with a narrower opening than a bay (geography), bay. The term was used traditionally for large, highly indented navigable bodies of s ...

in the

Sardinian Sea The Sea of Sardinia is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea between the Spanish archipelago of Balearic Islands and the Italian island of Sardinia. The deepest point is at some 3,000 m, some 150 km south-east of the island of Menor ...

, near

Oristano Oristano (; ) is an Italian city and (municipality), the capital of the Province of Oristano in the central-western part of the island of Sardinia. It is located on the northern part of the Campidano plain. It was established as the provincial ...

, in the western

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia an ...

n coast. It is limited from north by the Cape San Marco, in the Sinis peninsula, and from the south by Cape Frasca. It faces the provinces of Oristano and Medio Campidano. Near the gulf area several

wetland A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally. Flooding results in oxygen-poor ( anoxic) processes taking place, especially ...

s (such as the ''Stagno di Cabras'', the ''Stagno di Mistras '' and the ''Stagno di Santa Giusta''). The main human activities are fishing,

fish farming Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds. It is a particular type of aquaculture, which is the controlled cultivation and harvesting of ...

and the manufacture market connected to fish, including the production of

bottarga Bottarga is salted, cured fish roe pouch, typically of the Mugil cephalus, grey mullet or the Atlantic bluefin tuna, bluefin tuna (). The best-known version is produced around the Mediterranean cuisine, Mediterranean; similar foods are the Japane ...

. Tourism is increasingly, especially in the localities of San Giovanni di Sinis, Marina di Torre Grande and

Arborea Arborea is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Oristano, Sardinia, Italy, whose economy is largely based on agriculture and cattle breeding with production of vegetables, rice, fruit and milk (notably the local milk product Arborea). Histo ...

Lido.

References

Landforms of Sardinia

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