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Costa Sudoeste

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  • Natura 2000 site (code PTCON0012)
  • Under Habitats Directive
  • Since Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 CEST 1997
  • Country: Portugal
  • Administrative region: Algarve (PT15), Alentejo (PT18)
  • Surface area: 2623 km2 (262298.50 ha)
  • Marine area: 62%
  • Located in Mediterranean and Marine Atlantic biogeographical regions
  • It protects 110 species of the Nature Directives
  • It protects 47 habitat types of the Habitats Directive

Source and more information: Natura 2000 Standard Data Form


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Species summary

Nature directives' species in this site (110)
Species group Number
Amphibians 1
Birds 56
Fishes 4
Flowering Plants 27
Invertebrates 6
Mammals 12
Reptiles 4

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
1110 Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time 11829
1130 Estuaries 0
1140 Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide 0
1150 Coastal lagoons 0
1170 Reefs 25170
1240 Vegetated sea cliffs of the Mediterranean coasts with endemic Limonium spp 0
1310 Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand 0
1320 Spartina swards (Spartinion maritimae) 0
1410 Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimi) 0
1420 Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic halophilous scrubs (Sarcocornetea fruticosi) 0
1430 Halo-nitrophilous scrubs (Pegano-Salsoletea) 0
1510 Mediterranean salt steppes (Limonietalia) 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
2150 Atlantic decalcified fixed dunes (Calluno-Ulicetea) 0
2190 Humid dune slacks 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
2330 Inland dunes with open Corynephorus and Agrostis grasslands 0
3110 Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae) 0
3120 Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals generally on sandy soils of the West Mediterranean, with Isoetes spp 0
3140 Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp 0
3170 Mediterranean temporary ponds 0
3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation 0
3290 Intermittently flowing Mediterranean rivers of the Paspalo-Agrostidion 0
4020 Temperate Atlantic wet heaths with Erica ciliaris and Erica tetralix 0
4030 European dry heaths 0
5140 Cistus palhinhae formations on maritime wet heaths 0
5210 Arborescent matorral with Juniperus spp 0
5330 Thermo-Mediterranean and pre-desert scrub 0
5410 West Mediterranean clifftop phryganas (Astragalo-Plantaginetum subulatae) 0
6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) 0
6220 Pseudo-steppe with grasses and annuals of the Thero-Brachypodietea 0
6310 Dehesas with evergreen Quercus spp 0
6420 Mediterranean tall humid grasslands of the Molinio-Holoschoenion 0
6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels 0
8210 Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 0
8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 0
8310 Caves not open to the public 0
8330 Submerged or partially submerged sea caves 0
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 0
9240 Quercus faginea and Quercus canariensis Iberian woods 0
92A0 Salix alba and Populus alba galleries 0
9330 Quercus suber 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 Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 CET 2019

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