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Santa Pola Natural Park SANTA POLA SALINASSanta pola Salt flats are impossible to miss if you travel along the N332. From the Alicante Direction. There are two firms that operate the salt production for this area. The first and largest, the Bras del Port works, is found soon after leaving Santa Pola and just after you pass the mountains of Salt on your left.
After exploring the beach you need to go back to the main N332 and turn left with care, carry on down untill the road bears sharp left and over on the right you will see the newly renervated Old Tower, pull in here
View of the tower of Tamarit, situated in the parque natural de las Salinas de Santa Pola in the province Alicante, Spain This Nature Reserve –officially declared “Region of Special Importance for Birdlife”- is one of the few places in this country where you can watch flamingos and storks any month of the year.
Guided Visits (with or without animation) can be scheduled. For more information, contact Artalia, phone number +34 637143545. E-mail artalialugardelarte@yahoo.es Another recently started activity localy is sea harvesting, devoted mainly to breeding shrimps and prawns. BIRDS INCLUDE
Little Grebe (W), Great Crested Grebe, Black-necked Grebe (W), Balearic Shearwater (PM,W), Cory's Shearwater (W), European Storm-petrel (Su), Great Cormorant (W), Mediterranean Shag, Northern Gannet (PM,W), Little Bittern (Su), Black-crowned Night Heron (scarce PM), Squacco Heron (Su), Cattle Egret, Little Egret, Grey Heron, Purple Heron (Su), White Stork (PM), Glossy Ibis (scarce PM), Eurasian Spoonbill (scarce PM), Greater Flamingo, Common Shelduck, Eurasian Wigeon (W), Common Teal (PM), Mallard, Northern Pintail (scarce W), Garganey (PM), Northern Shoveler (W), Marbled Duck (Su), Red-crested Pochard, Common Pochard (W), Tufted Duck (scarce W), Common Scoter (W), Marsh Harrier (W), Montagu's Harrier (PM), Osprey (PM,W), Common Kestrel, Common Quail (Su), Water Rail, Eurasian Coot (W), Black-winged Stilt (Su), Pied Avocet, Little Ringed Plover (PM), Ringed Plover (PM,W), Kentish Plover (Su), Golden Plover (W), Grey Plover (W), Northern Lapwing (W), Red Knot (PM), Sanderling (PM), Little Stint (PM), Curlew Sandpiper (PM), Dunlin (PM), Ruff (PM), Slender-billed Gull (PM), Audouin's Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Caspian Tern (PM), Sandwich Tern (PM,W), Common Tern (Su), Gull-billed Tern (Su), Whiskered Tern (Su), Black Tern (PM), Razorbill (W), Rock Dove, Pallid Swift (Su), Common Kingfisher (W), European Bee-eater (Su, PM), Hoopoe, Greater Short-toed Lark (Su), Lesser Short-toed Lark, Thekla Lark, Barn Swallow (Su,PM), Eurasian Crag Martin (W), Water Pipit (W), Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin (Su), Black-eared Wheatear (Su), Black Wheatear, Blue Rock Thrush, Zitting Cisticola,Savi's Warbler (Su), Moustached Warbler, Reed Warbler (Su), Great Reed Warbler (Su), Sardinian Warbler, Bearded Tit, Woodchat Shrike (Su), Spotless Starling, Reed Bunting.
These pools are a lagoon and spit type wetland area that is part of what used to be a much larger swamp on the flood plain of the left bank of the River Segura. Nowadays, mainly due to the actions of man, the area is divided into two large areas of wetlands: El Hondo de Elche and Santa Pola, with an area of brine pools between the two. The area is fed by a mixed water supply; it receives sub-surface fresh water from further inland and salt water that enters through the channels that connect the lagoon with the sea. The part that is permanently under water is limited to the area of the saltworks, whereas the rest of the area suffers sporadic and variable flooding. The typical vegetation is salt water, made up of species whose distribution depends on the presence of water and the degree of salinity. At one end of the scale, one finds communities of hyper-saline annual saltworts and salt grass, which gradually give way to perennial saltworts, species of sea lavender and many other species as salinity and humidity decrease. Some of these species are endemic (Limonium santapolense, etc.) and of great bio-geographic interest. Further inland, in the fresh-water zone, one finds hydrophilic communities of reeds and rushes making their contribution to the botanical diversity of the area. |
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Also this area is home to the spiny-footed lizard, the Spanish Psammodromus and certain invertebrates difficult to locate amongst the coastal sands make the visit to the salt works even more attractive. |
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A preview can, incidentally, be obtained, in the form of a walk around the 'salt museum's' reserve on the outskirts of Santa Pola. Depending upon water-levels, the pools at the opposite side of the road can hold good wader numbers, too.
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Please follow: Rules for preserving the Reserve You are in a protected wildlife area with nesting birds. Keep dogs on a lead. To contribute to its preservation visitors should attempt to come in small groups, make as little noise as possible, not leave the paths marked out, respect animals and plants, not light fires, respect forestry rules, and leave no rubbish, waste or tracks of your presence along the route. Thank you. |
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