Current view: Text account
Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
A wide, generally shallow reservoir with surrounding wet grassland and bogs. Human activities include livestock-farming and arable agriculture.
This is a very important site for resident and passage waterbirds. Species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria:
Tetrax tetrax (38-63 non-breeding individuals).
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Threats come from the transfer of water from the River Ebro to the River Besaya which is reducing the water-level of the reservoir (`Other' threats, above), and a project to create a golf course. Hunting is forbidden.
National None
International None
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: River Ebro dam (Spain). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/river-ebro-dam-iba-spain on 27/12/2024.
