PORTUGAL · DESIGNATIONS · STATUTORY
Áreas Protegidas — todo o país (CDDA)
What this layer shows
Inventory of protected areas designated under national law, reported to the European Environment Agency (CDDA): the only layer covering mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores in a single request.
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 Portugal 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 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.
Madeira and the Azores
The set for working on the islands. ICNF's and APA's national layers cover the mainland only: these are the ones that answer on the islands: Natura 2000 and the national inventory of classified areas, on Madeira, Porto Santo, the Selvagens and the nine islands of the Azores. On Madeira come the regional layers: areas of potentially significant flood risk, sea cliffs, the land cadastre (still partial), the geological map, PDM zoning, landslide and fire susceptibility, coastal risks and the Santana and Porto Santo biosphere reserves. On the Azores, the Regional Government's layers: Ramsar sites, biosphere reserves, flood-risk zones, water-abstraction protection and vulnerable zones.
Nature and habitats
Natura 2000, habitats and the protected areas of the whole country, islands included through the national inventory, with the Ramsar sites and biosphere reserves of the mainland and the Azores.
Places to visit
Walking routes, protected areas, geoparks and beaches: the map for a day out.