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Nature directives' species in this site (74)
Species group Number
Birds 51
Fishes 2
Invertebrates 7
Mammals 12
Mosses & Liverworts 1
Reptiles 1

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
1520 Iberian gypsum vegetation (Gypsophiletalia) 6.119
3110 Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae) 463.06
3150 Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition -type vegetation 6.845
3160 Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds 0.79
3240 Alpine rivers and their ligneous vegetation with Salix elaeagnos 79.846
3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation 0.575
4020 Temperate Atlantic wet heaths with Erica ciliaris and Erica tetralix 16.927
4030 European dry heaths 157.362
4060 Alpine and Boreal heaths 1732.49
5110 Stable xero-thermophilous formations with Buxus sempervirens on rock slopes (Berberidion pp) 161.749
5120 Mountain Cytisus purgans formations 628.198
5130 Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands 376.113
6110 Rupicolous calcareous or basophilic grasslands of the Alysso-Sedion albi 0.01
6140 Siliceous Pyrenean Festuca eskia grasslands 5405.79
6170 Alpine and subalpine calcareous grasslands 1909.4
6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) 2728.19
6230 Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on silicious substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas in Continental Europe) 2101.57
6410 Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae) 17.231
6420 Mediterranean tall humid grasslands of the Molinio-Holoschoenion 0.72
6510 Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) 33.692
6520 Mountain hay meadows 237.86
7110 Active raised bogs 0.12
7140 Transition mires and quaking bogs 2.15
7230 Alkaline fens 27.055
8110 Siliceous scree of the montane to snow levels (Androsacetalia alpinae and Galeopsietalia ladani) 71.02
8130 Western Mediterranean and thermophilous scree 7256.89
8210 Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 507.562
8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 8831.03
8230 Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of the Sedo-Scleranthion or of the Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii 1.059
8310 Caves not open to the public 0.01
8340 Permanent glaciers 155.706
9120 Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer (Quercion robori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion) 119.22
9130 Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests 641.376
9180 Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines 66.444
91D0 Bog woodland 28.15
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 0.189
92A0 Salix alba and Populus alba galleries 14.824
9340 Quercus ilex and Quercus rotundifolia forests 420.87
9430 Subalpine and montane Pinus uncinata forests (* if on gypsum or limestone) 5509.69
9430 Subalpine and montane Pinus uncinata forests (* if on gypsum or limestone) 476.389
9530 (Sub-) Mediterranean pine forests with endemic black pines 40.342

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) Under Birds directive
  • Date classified as Special Protection Area (SPA)
 Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 CET 1988
 
Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC (SCI) Under Habitats directive
  • Date proposed as Site of Community Importance (SCI)
 Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 CET 1996
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
 Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 CET 2003
 
Date designated as Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 CET 2013
 
Date of Standard data form update Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 CEST 2021

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