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GALICIA Information - Natural Parks: RIA DE ORTIGUEIRA E LADRIDO

LOCATION: Municipalities of Carino and Origueira, north of A Coruna. The SCI stretches over municipalities of Cerdido, As Pontes de Garda Rodrfguez and As Somozas.

SURFACE AREA: 2,939 hectares; SCI: 3,868 hectares.

ACCESS: Ortigueira on the Ferrol-Viveiro C-642 road. Turn-off in Ponte Mera to Carino and Cape Ortegal.

SERVICES: Accommodation: Yes. Food: Yes.

M.A.N.: Bird-watching Observatory and Shelter (Senra). Information boards and fitted-out routes.

In the rias of Ortigueira and Ladrido, there is no main river at first sight. No less than six streams flow into them, forming a labyrinth of sea inlets and marshy areas complemented by sand expanses and the island of San Vicente. Given this situation, it is a huge humid complex under the shelter of the A Coriscada Mountains at the east and A Capelada at the west, both falling abruptly over the Atlantic or the Cantabrian Sea. In this other internal sea of the rias, whose coves offer nooks and crannies of harmonious nature and good wild life observatories, the waters are totally quiet. There is an interesting route along the Morouzos beach. The sand expanse is five kilometres long, along both banks, and forms a well-preserved dune system. On top of that, the natural space stretches throughout the SCI with the various ecosystems of the river Mera offering recreational aras there, such as the small island at its mouth.
In addition, this area offers an important cultural heritage: water mills (Saa, Senra), tidal mills (Cuíña) or windmills (Campo da Torre, Santa Marta de Ortigueira); country mansions and Celtic settlements.

FLORA: Humid areas covered with }uncus maritimos and reed beds, sea meadows of Eelgrass (Z.marina and noltii). Vegetation associated to the dune system: European Beachgrass (Ammophila arenaria), Sea Hooly (Eryngium maritimom), etc...

FAUNA: Green cormorant (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), common heron (Egretta garzetta), and blacklegged swallow (Sterna sandvicencis). In winter, presence of Curlews (Numerius arquata) and other species such as Mallard Ducks (Anas platyrhynchos), European Wigeons and Northern Shovellers (Anas penelope and A. clypeata).

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