SPAIN · DESIGNATIONS · STATUTORY
Espacios Naturales Protegidos
What this layer shows
National inventory of protected areas declared by the Spanish State and by the comunidades autónomas: national and natural parks, reserves, natural monuments and protected landscapes. It also covers the Canary Islands and the Balearics.
Publisher and licence
European Environment Agency · EEA standard re-use policy
© European Environment Agency, EEA standard re-use policy
Where the data comes from
ARCGIS · bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu
Merestone asks this service live for the area on screen. Nothing is copied or stored beyond a short cache.
This layer is drawn from the European Environment Agency's annual return of what Spain reports, not from a live service of the national body itself. A boundary changed this year appears here when the next return is published.
Facts shown for each feature
IUCN category · Designation type · Area (ha)
In these presets
Constraints
The designations consulted first in any environmental study: the Red Natura 2000 (ZEC and ZEPA, the basis of the appropriate assessment) and the national inventory of Espacios Naturales Protegidos, which also covers the Canaries and the Balearics. The starting point for an EIA or an appropriate assessment.
Places to visit
Trails, natural parks, monumental trees and beaches: the map for a day out.
Renewables
Castilla y León's wind and solar exclusion zones, with the national environmental designations that go with them.
Andalusia
Vías pecuarias and waymarked trails of the Andalusian network over the protected areas and the Red Natura 2000. Vías pecuarias are publicly owned land (dominio público): they constrain works and fencing, and they are also historic walking routes.