GATA, Cabo de, a headland of Spain, in Andalucía, in the province and 22 miles S.E. of Almería, on the east side of the Gulf of Gata, in Lat. 36. 44. N. and Long. 2. 14. W. In the centre of the promontory of Gata are four hills; and a rocky mass about 80 yards from the beach, formed of crystallized limestone, rises to the height of 215 feet above the sea, and contains a marble quarry in which corundum and agates are found, and large masses of carnelian. Its ancient name was Charidemi Promontorium, the S. point of Hispania Tarraconensis. It lay directly opposite to the mouth of the river Malva in Mauretania. (Ptol. ii. 4, 7.)