PORTUGAL · LANDSCAPE · WATER
Zonas de Proteção às Captações — Açores
What this layer shows
The protection zones around drinking-water abstractions in the Azores, on every island except Corvo, as mapped by the Regional Government; each zone carries the name of the source it protects. The service does not distinguish the immediate, intermediate or extended zone: check each perimeter's rules in the legal instrument that set it. The Azorean equivalent of the mainland's abstraction protection.
Publisher and licence
Governo dos Açores — Secretaria Regional do Ambiente e Ação Climática · CC BY 4.0
© Governo dos Açores — Secretaria Regional do Ambiente e Ação Climática, CC BY 4.0
Where the data comes from
WFS · wssig3.azores.gov.pt
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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.