Carena
- Modern name
- Atlas Mountains
- Coordinates
- 21.07, 24.05
- World Historical Gazetteer
- https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364287
Dati refers to Carena or Charena as un monte di miglia trecento / "a mountain [range] 300 miles long" (3.34.5-6), and associates it with the Atlas Mountains, a range that stretches across northern Africa. The Cresques Atlas explains: "All this mountain range is called Carena by the Saracens and Claris Mountains by the Christians." Our coordinates are approximate, and locate Carena west of Egypt following Dati's description (even if the actual Atlas Mountains do not stretch so far).
This toponym does not appear in the poem, only on the maps accompanying it.
Map of the location P070
This toponym only appears in the poem, never in the maps.
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Carena.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/carena/.