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| La Albufera | |
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| L'Albufera | |
IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources) | |
 Barraca, typical construction of the Albufera | |
  Location in Spain | |
| Location | Spain |
| Nearest city | Valencian Community |
| Coordinates | 39°17′45″N 0°20′00″W / 39.295736°N 0.333453°W |
| Area | 21,120 ha |
| Established | July 8th, 1986 |
| Visitors | 30,000 (in 2007) |
| Governing body | Decreto 89/1986 |
| Website | http://www.parquesnaturales.gva.es/va/web/pn-l-albufera |
13 included Natural parks | |
The Albufera Natural Park (in Valencian Parc Natural de l'Albufera) or simply La Albufera (from the Arabic البحيرة al-Buḥayra, "the lake") is a Spanish protected natural area located in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community. It was also known by the Romans as Nacarum Stagnum and in some Arabic poems it is called Mirror of the Sun.
This 21,120 ha site, which was declared a natural park by the Generalitat Valenciana on July 8, 1986,[3] is located about 10 km south of the city of Valencia. It includes the Albufera, its wetlands and the coastal cordon adjacent to both.[4]
On October 23, 1990, the Special Protection Plan document for the Natural Park was approved (currently repealed by the Supreme Court of Spain) and Decree 96/1995, of May 16, 1995, approved the Natural Resources Management Plan (PORN, Plan de Ordenación de los Recursos Naturales) of the Albufera Hydrographic Basin.[5] On November 19, 2004, Decree 259/2004 was approved by the Council of the Generalitat Valenciana, establishing the Albufera Master Plan for Use and Management (PRUG, Plan Rector de Uso y Gestión).[6]
In 1902, the Valencian writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez wrote the novel Cañas y barro, set in the Albufera at the beginning of the 20th century.
The Albufera of Valencia is a shallow coastal lagoon (average depth of 1 m) located on the Mediterranean coast south of the city of Valencia. It occupies an area of 23.94 km2 and is surrounded by 223 km2 of rice fields.[7] Its hydrographic basin extends over 917.1 km2, from sea level to an altitude of about 1000 height above mean sea level. It is separated from the sea by a narrow sandy coastal bar (restinga) with dunes stabilized by a pine forest (Dehesa del Saler). The Albufera is an area of passage for many species of Bird migration.
Its ecological value is very great because here you can find species of great ecological value in danger of extinction, such as the fartet or the samaruc. It is also one of the few lagoons that are preserved in good condition in the Valencian Community, whose coast was formerly formed by a succession of lagoons and marshes. Today you can still see the succession of marshes all along the Valencian coast, although smaller than the Albufera of Valencia, from the Marsh of Pego-Oliva, the marsh of Jaraco, the Marsh of Rafalell and Vistabella in the Valencian district of Rafalell and Vistabella, the Marjal del Moro in Puzol-Sagunto, or the Marsh of Almenara, among others.[note 1]
- ^ "ZEPA ES0000471 La Albufera". Red Natura 2000 (in Spanish).
- ^ "ZEC ES0000023 La Albufera". Red Natura 2000 (in Spanish).
- ^ "Decreto 89/1986, de 8 de julio, del Consell de la Generalitat Valenciana, de régimen jurídico del Parque Natural de la Albufera". Diario oficial de la Generalidad Valenciana (in Spanish). 1986.
- ^ "La Devesa de El Saler". valencia.es (in Spanish). Archived from the original on September 14, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2003.
- ^ "Decreto 96/1995, de 16 de mayo, del Gobierno valenciano, por el que se aprueba el Plan de Ordenación de los Recursos Naturales de la Cuenca Hidrográfica de la Albufera". Diario oficial de la Generalidad Valenciana (in Spanish). 1995.
- ^ "Decreto 259/2004, de 19 de noviembre, del Consell de la Generalitat, por el que se aprueba el Plan Rector de Uso y Gestión del Parque Natural de l'Albufera". Diario oficial de la Generalidad Valenciana (in Spanish). 2004.
- ^ Segura Beltrán et al. (1992)
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