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The site was identified as important in 2011 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria.

Populations meeting IBA criteria ('trigger species'):

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s)	Population estimate at site	IBA criteria met
Black Stork Ciconia nigra	LC	breeding	2003	min 5 breeding pairs	B1i, C2
Cinereous Vulture Aegypius monachus	NT	resident	2006	91-130 breeding pairs	A1, A4ii, B1iii, B2, C1, C2, C6
Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus	LC	breeding	2009	min 50 breeding pairs	B1iii, B2, C2
Red Kite Milvus milvus	LC	winter	2009	min 45 individuals	A1, C1

The current IUCN Red List category may differ from that which was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment (2011).

Protected area (PA)	PA designation	PA area (ha)	Relationship of PA with IBA	Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Volcán de el Gasco	Lugar de Interés Científico	10	protected area contained by site	0
Tejos del Cerezal	Árbol Singular	3	protected area contained by site	0
Sierras de Risco Viejo	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	11,952	protected area overlaps with site	0
Sierra de Gata y Valle de las Pilas	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	19,108	protected area contained by site	18,523
Sierra de Gata	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	17,511	protected area contained by site	18,057
Riveras de Gata y Acebo	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	1,199	protected area overlaps with site	409
Ríos Arrago y Tralgas	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	827	protected area overlaps with site	280
Río Esperaban	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	777	protected area overlaps with site	346
Río Erjas	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	1,457	protected area overlaps with site	531
Magnolio de los Duran	Árbol Singular	3	protected area contained by site	0
Madroña de Guijarroblanco	Árbol Singular	3	protected area contained by site	0
Las Hurdes	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	26,269	protected area contained by site	8,650
Las Batuecas-Sierra de Francia -ZEPA	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	30,221	protected area is adjacent to site	0
Las Batuecas-Sierra De Francia	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	31,786	protected area is adjacent to site	0
Las Batuecas-Sierra de Francia	Parque Natural	31,728	protected area is adjacent to site	0
Hurdes	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	27,237	protected area contained by site	11,616
Granadilla	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	24,211	protected area is adjacent to site	0
Enebro de las Mestas	Árbol Singular	3	protected area contained by site	0
Embalse Gabriel y Galán	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	8,422	protected area is adjacent to site	0
El Rebollar	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	49,670	protected area is adjacent to site	0
Cedro de Gata	Árbol Singular	3	protected area contained by site	0
Castaño del Cobijo	Árbol Singular	0	protected area contained by site	0
Camino de Trevejo a Jálama	Corredores Ecoculturales	8	protected area contained by site	0

Habitat (IUCN level 1)	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Forest	Broadleaved deciduous woodland, Broadleaved evergreen woodland	-
Shrubland	Sclerophyllous scrub, garrigue and maquis	-
Grassland	Mesophile grasslands	-
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)	Inland cliffs	-
Artificial/Terrestrial	Perennial crops, orchards and groves, Forestry plantations	-

For more information about the IUCN Habitat classification, please click here.

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
agriculture	-
forestry	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: East Gata mountain range. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/east-gata-mountain-range-iba-spain on 01/12/2023.