Salinas de Santa Pola
Quick facts
- Natura 2000 site (code ES0000120)
- Under Habitats Directive
- Since December 1997
- Country: Spain
- Administrative region: Comunidad Valenciana (ES52)
- Surface area: 25 km2 (2503.93 ha)
- Marine area: 0%
- Located in Mediterranean biogeographical region
- It protects 39 species of the Nature Directives
- It protects 12 habitat types of the Habitats Directive
Source and more information: Natura 2000 Standard Data Form
Species
List
Gallery
Species summary
Nature directives' species in this site (39)Species group | Number |
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Birds | 38 |
Fishes | 1 |
Habitat types
Habitat type code | Habitat type english name | Cover [ha] |
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1150 | Coastal lagoons | 500.786 |
1210 | Annual vegetation of drift lines | 25.0393 |
1420 | Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic halophilous scrubs (Sarcocornetea fruticosi) | 500.786 |
1430 | Halo-nitrophilous scrubs (Pegano-Salsoletea) | 125.197 |
1510 | Mediterranean salt steppes (Limonietalia) | 375.589 |
2110 | Embryonic shifting dunes | 25.0393 |
2120 | Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ('white dunes') | 25.0393 |
2210 | Crucianellion maritimae fixed beach dunes | 25.0393 |
2260 | Cisto-Lavenduletalia dune sclerophyllous scrubs | 25.0393 |
3140 | Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp | 250.393 |
3150 | Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition -type vegetation | 250.393 |
92D0 | Southern riparian galleries and thickets (Nerio-Tamaricetea and Securinegion tinctoriae) | 25.0393 |
Designation information
NATURA 2000 site under
Birds Directive 2009/147/EC (SPA) |
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Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC (SCI) |
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December 1997 |
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Not available |
Date of Standard data form update | September 2019 |
Other resources
Natura 2000 map viewer | Interactive map designed for showing and querying Natura 2000 sites. Other information such as Nationally designated areas and LIFE projects are also available. |
Protected planet map viewer | Interactive map showing the World Database on Protected Areas |
European protected sites map viewer | Simple interactive map showing Natura 2000 sites and Nationally designated areas |
Data download | The Natura 2000 dataset is available from the European Environment Agency website |