PORTUGAL · LANDSCAPE · WATER
Albufeiras de Águas Públicas
What this layer shows
The classified public-water reservoirs (albufeiras) of mainland Portugal, with each one's classification (protected, restricted or free use) and statute. The classification determines the uses allowed on the water body and its margin.
Publisher and licence
Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, I.P.
Licence not stated by the publisher
© Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, I.P.
Where the data comes from
ARCGIS · sniambgeoogc.apambiente.pt
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Facts shown for each feature
Classification · Area (ha) · Legal instrument
In these presets
Condicionantes
The designations a professional checks first: the Natura 2000 sites (ZEC and ZPE, the basis of the Avaliação de Incidências Ambientais), the mainland protected areas with their legal classification, the national inventory of classified areas (which covers Madeira and the Azores), the Ramsar sites, the water-domain servitudes (ARPSI flood extents, adjacent zones, abstraction protection perimeters and classified reservoirs) and the POOC and POAAP zoning. Does NOT include REN, RAN or PDM zoning, for a complete constraints plan, consult the municipality.
Água e litoral
The water-related constraints of mainland Portugal: the drinking-water abstraction protection perimeters (immediate, intermediate and outer zones), the Water Framework Directive abstraction protected zones, the public-water reservoirs and their POAAP zoning, the POOC coastal zoning, the waste-water sensitive areas and the nitrate vulnerable zones.