Special Protection Area (Birds Directive) · ESP
Cabo de Gata-Níjar
- Area
- 495 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 1989
Overview
- Designation
- Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
- Established
- 1989
- Managing authority
- See European Environment Agency Geospatial Data Catalogue for more information - https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/be2142b0-7dc4-42e3-afac-f7cc5f1a9ac6
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
3 369 distinct species · 118 507 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Cabo de Gata-Níjar : 29 espèces reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology1 basins · 0 lakes · 18 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
47,6km
Basins crossed
1
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
2 054km²
Discharge in basins
0,0m³/s
Mean precip.
289mm/an
Mean T°
16,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,74
Mean runoff
33mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
318m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (18, ord ≥ 4)
- Rambla del Saltadorord 3len here5.34 km91%total6 km
- Cañada de Méndezord 1len here5.19 km100%total5 km
- Barranco del Negroord 3len here4.48 km74%total6 km
- Barranco Grande del Águilaord 1len here4.46 km35%total13 km
- Barranco de la Menaord 1len here4.14 km89%total5 km
- Rambla del Cajónord 2len here3.26 km100%total3 km
- Rambla Moralesord 3len here3.09 km25%total13 km
- Rio Aliasord 3len here3.07 km17%total18 km
- Barranco Sepulturaord 1len here2.67 km100%total3 km
- Rambla del Playazoord 1len here2.27 km100%total2 km
- Rambla de Moralesord 1len here2.00 km14%total14 km
- Rambla de las Higuerasord 2len here1.76 km15%total11 km
6 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Ramblilla de la Viñaord 1len here1.63 km100%total2 km
- Cañada de los Balcanesord 1len here1.48 km100%total1 km
- Rambla del Aguaord 2len here1.34 km8%total16 km
- Rambla de Retamarord 1len here0.61 km21%total3 km
- Rambla del Plomoord 1len here0.56 km99%total1 km
- Rambla del Charco del Loboord 2len here0.23 km3%total9 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 36.87804, -2.04304
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.