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Sintra / Cascais

Quick facts

  • Natura 2000 site (code PTCON0008)
  • Under Habitats Directive
  • Since Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 CEST 1997
  • Country: Portugal
  • Administrative region: Centro (P) (PT16), Lisboa (PT17)
  • Surface area: 166 km2 (16631.88 ha)
  • Marine area: 51%
  • Located in Mediterranean and Marine Atlantic biogeographical regions
  • It protects 73 species of the Nature Directives
  • It protects 27 habitat types of the Habitats Directive

Source and more information: Natura 2000 Standard Data Form


Species


List

Species summary

Nature directives' species in this site (73)
Species group Number
Amphibians 1
Birds 49
Fishes 2
Flowering Plants 11
Invertebrates 3
Mammals 5
Reptiles 2

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
1110 Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time 2861
1170 Reefs 3000
1210 Annual vegetation of drift lines 0
1240 Vegetated sea cliffs of the Mediterranean coasts with endemic Limonium spp 0
2110 Embryonic shifting dunes 0
2120 Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ('white dunes') 0
2130 Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation ('grey dunes') 0
2230 Malcolmietalia dune grasslands 0
2250 Coastal dunes with Juniperus spp 0
2260 Cisto-Lavenduletalia dune sclerophyllous scrubs 0
2270 Wooded dunes with Pinus pinea and/or Pinus pinaster 0
3280 Constantly flowing Mediterranean rivers with Paspalo-Agrostidion species and hanging curtains of Salix and Populus alba 0
3290 Intermittently flowing Mediterranean rivers of the Paspalo-Agrostidion 0
4030 European dry heaths 0
5210 Arborescent matorral with Juniperus spp 0
5230 Arborescent matorral with Laurus nobilis 0
5330 Thermo-Mediterranean and pre-desert scrub 0
6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) 0
6420 Mediterranean tall humid grasslands of the Molinio-Holoschoenion 0
8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 0
8330 Submerged or partially submerged sea caves 0
9230 Galicio-Portuguese oak woods with Quercus robur and Quercus pyrenaica 0
9240 Quercus faginea and Quercus canariensis Iberian woods 0
92A0 Salix alba and Populus alba galleries 0
92D0 Southern riparian galleries and thickets (Nerio-Tamaricetea and Securinegion tinctoriae) 0
9330 Quercus suber forests 0
9340 Quercus ilex and Quercus rotundifolia forests 0

Designation information

NATURA 2000 is the ecological network for the conservation of wild animals and plant species and natural habitats of Community importance within the Union. It consists of sites classified under the Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive (the Nature Directives).

NATURA 2000 site under

Birds Directive 2009/147/EC (SPA) Not under Birds directive
 
Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC (SCI) Under Habitats directive
  • Date proposed as Site of Community Importance (SCI)
Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 CEST 1997
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 CET 2008
 
Date of Standard data form update Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 CET 2019

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