Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive) · prt
Sintra / Cascais
- Area
- 166 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 2008
Overview
- Designation
- Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)
- Established
- 2008
- 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
3 677 distinct species · 158 862 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Sintra / Cascais : 25 espèces reliées par 65 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.6%, 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 · 9 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
9,2km
Basins crossed
1
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
2 612km²
Discharge in basins
0,0m³/s
Mean precip.
742mm/an
Mean T°
15,4°C
Moisture idx
-0,16
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
328mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
113m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (9, ord ≥ 4)
- Ribeira da Penha Longaord 1len here2.05 km33%total6 km
- Ribeira da Samarraord 1len here1.83 km100%total2 km
- Ribeira do Falcãoord 1len here1.62 km99%total2 km
- Ribeira da Foz do Guinchoord 1len here1.24 km100%total1 km
- Rio do Sobralord 1len here1.08 km7%total15 km
- Rio Sizandroord 3len here0.53 km2%total32 km
- Rio do Cucoord 1len here0.48 km8%total6 km
- Rio Lizandroord 3len here0.30 km1%total22 km
- Ribeira de Colaresord 1len here0.08 km1%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
- 38.90297, -9.44474
- 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.