{"id":17443,"date":"2017-10-20T15:59:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.piratasdenabia.com\/parque-nacional-das-illas-atlanticas\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:59:58","slug":"parque-nacional-das-illas-atlanticas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piratasdenabia.com\/en\/parque-nacional-das-illas-atlanticas\/","title":{"rendered":"Parque Nacional Das Illas Atlanticas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Parque Nacional Das Illas Atl\u00e1nticas was created in 2002 and consists of four archipelagos, <strong>Cortegada<\/strong>, <strong>S\u00e1lvora<\/strong>, <strong>Ons<\/strong> and <strong>C\u00edes<\/strong>, located on the west coast of Galicia covering a total of 8,333 hectares of which 7,285.20 are marine. Illas Atl\u00e1nticas is the only national park located in the Galician community and is the tenth most visited in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The flora of the Parque Nacional Das Illas Atl\u00e1nticas has as its main standard its extensive <strong>laurel forest<\/strong>, <strong>corals<\/strong> and <strong>more than 200 species of algae<\/strong> that grow in its waters. As for the fauna, birds such as <strong>cormorants<\/strong> and <strong>yellow-legged<\/strong> <strong>gulls<\/strong> predominate, although the presence of <strong>dolphins<\/strong> is also noteworthy.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>archipelago of Cortegada<\/strong> is located in the Arosa estuary, in the province of Pontevedra. This archipelago is composed of the main island, Cortegada, and other smaller islands known as Malveira Grande, Malveira Chica, Bri\u00f1as and the islet do C\u00f3n. This archipelago is characterized by a flat relief, the typical characteristics of an estuary and a lush laurel forest in the interior of the main island.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>S\u00e1lvora archipelago<\/strong> is located at the mouth of the Arosa estuary and is composed of the island of S\u00e1lvola and several islets called Vionta, Con de Noro, Herbosa, R\u00faa Insuabela, Gaboteira, Sagres and Forcadi\u00f1as. On the island of S\u00e1lvola you can visit an abandoned village where the utensils used by its inhabitants to carry out their daily life are still preserved. One of the main characteristics of the island are the sculptures that the effect of the wind has created on the mixture of stones and salt.<\/p>\n<p>In the Pontevedra estuary is the <strong>archipelago of Ons<\/strong>, one of the best known of the Parque Nacional Das Illas Atl\u00e1nticas. This archipelago is formed by the island of Ons, the island of Onza and the islet of Freitosas. It has some rocky areas next to dunes and sandy areas.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, the flagship of the national park located at the mouth of the Vigo estuary, the <strong>C\u00edes archipelago<\/strong>, consisting of the islands of Monteagudo, Faro and San Marti\u00f1o and the islets Agoreira, Penela dos Vi\u00f1os, Carabelos and Ruzo. This archipelago has been considered a Natural Park since 1980, a Special Protection Area for Birds since 1998 and a Site of Community Importance since 2001. C\u00edes is characterized by a very varied relief, with steep cliffs on one side of the island and quiet sandy beaches on the other. The ruins of a salting factory, a water mill and a monastery show that this was one of the most populated forts in Galicia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parque Nacional Das Illas Atl\u00e1nticas was created in 2002 and consists of four archipelagos, Cortegada, S\u00e1lvora, Ons and C\u00edes, located on the west coast of Galicia covering a total of 8,333 hectares of which 7,285.20 are marine. Illas Atl\u00e1nticas is the only national park located in the Galician community and is the tenth most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piratasdenabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piratasdenabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piratasdenabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piratasdenabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piratasdenabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piratasdenabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piratasdenabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piratasdenabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piratasdenabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}