The Punta Nati lighthouse dominates the stark, stony landscape of the western end of the north coast of Ciutadella, with a grid of dry walls, huts and bridges for sheep, and with not very high escarpments inhabited by gulls and terns. In Cala Morell, the prehistoric caves show that the island was inhabited since ancient times. In La Vall, after a very well-preserved pine forest, Cala AÉgaiarens has a small wetland with tamarisks where you can see coots, moorhens, ducks and freshwater turtles.
Between Morell and Aigaiarens the geology changes: from relatively recent limestone terrain, we pass to dark, slatey, Pateozoic soils, on a stretch of irregular, abrupt and solitary coastline.
Ravines of Menorca.
In Menorca, the torrents that cross the regular limestone slope of the Migjorn form winding and steep ravines. Algendar, Biniparratx, Trebalúger, and many others. In some cases they are kilometers long, and the walls can reach almost a hundred meters in height, separated by about eighty meters. In all of them we find varied habitats: olive groves, cultivated fields, pine forests, rocks and walls, lagoons at the mouths, sometimes on beautiful beaches. A remarkable number of species live in the bed, including several botanical endemics. The Menorcan shrew and the marten are frequent there.
In the sky, kites and terns. In the mouth, moorhens and terns. and water turtles.
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