Villaviciosa Estuary Partial Nature Reserve
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The territory was declared a Partial Natural Reserve in 1995 and belongs entirely to the council of Villaviciosa. It is also included in the list of Wetlands of International Importance (RAMSAR).
In the Villaviciosa Estuary, with approximately 8,000 m. long and a width that ranges between 1,000 and 200 m. There are four main types of natural environments: the beaches and dunes, the estuary, the cliffs, and the coastal plain, which are inhabited by aquatic birds, marine invertebrates, as well as different types of vegetation characteristic of this habitat.
The Ría de Villaviciosa is of great faunistic interest, especially ornithological with waterfowl, most of them migratory birds, since it is located in an intermediate situation between the migratory routes. Estuaries are of great interest for them, both for the diversity of food resources they offer, fish, crustaceans, mollusks, worms, etc., as well as for their abundance.
In addition to the undoubted natural values of the estuary, the environment of this space has abundant cultural and heritage resources, some of them of great regional relevance.