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Costa Ártabra

Quick facts

  • Natura 2000 site (code ES1110002)
  • Under Habitats Directive
  • Since December 1997
  • Country: Spain
  • Administrative region: Galicia (ES11)
  • Surface area: 75 km2 (7545.87 ha)
  • Marine area: 11%
  • Located in Atlantic and Marine Atlantic biogeographical regions
  • It protects 70 species of the Nature Directives
  • It protects 43 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 (70)
Species group Number
Amphibians 2
Birds 47
Ferns 3
Flowering Plants 4
Invertebrates 5
Mammals 6
Mosses & Liverworts 1
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 58.16
1130 Estuaries 139.63
1140 Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide 238.72
1150 Coastal lagoons 154.31
1160 Large shallow inlets and bays 338.6
1170 Reefs 144.66
1210 Annual vegetation of drift lines 5.14
1230 Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic Coasts 598.63
1310 Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand 0.53
1330 Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) 13.96
1420 Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic halophilous scrubs (Sarcocornetea fruticosi) 0.53
2110 Embryonic shifting dunes 0.89
2120 Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ('white dunes') 73.02
2130 Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation ('grey dunes') 490.17
2190 Humid dune slacks 73.48
2230 Malcolmietalia dune grasslands 0.5
2260 Cisto-Lavenduletalia dune sclerophyllous scrubs 3.46
3150 Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition -type vegetation 3.39
3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation 7.69
4020 Temperate Atlantic wet heaths with Erica ciliaris and Erica tetralix 1427.7
4030 European dry heaths 2764.19
4040 Dry Atlantic coastal heaths with Erica vagans 367.69
5230 Arborescent matorral with Laurus nobilis 14.1
6220 Pseudo-steppe with grasses and annuals of the Thero-Brachypodietea 22.86
6410 Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae) 10.74
6420 Mediterranean tall humid grasslands of the Molinio-Holoschoenion 61.3
6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels 6.72
6510 Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) 100.57
7110 Active raised bogs 107.22
7130 Blanket bogs (* if active bog) 0.7
7140 Transition mires and quaking bogs 5.69
7150 Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion 31.29
7210 Calcareous fens with Cladium mariscus and species of the Caricion davallianae 15.26
7220 Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) 3.63
7230 Alkaline fens 0.77
8130 Western Mediterranean and thermophilous scree 6.89
8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 27.76
8230 Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of the Sedo-Scleranthion or of the Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii 474.03
8310 Caves not open to the public 3.22
8330 Submerged or partially submerged sea caves 3.61
9180 Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines 0.92
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 55.81
9230 Galicio-Portuguese oak woods with Quercus robur and Quercus pyrenaica 2.88

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)
December 1997
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
December 2004
 
Date designated as Special Area of Conservation (SAC) March 2014
 
Date of Standard data form update October 2020

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