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Sisargas Islands

Malpica de Bergantiños, Bergantiños, A Coruña

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Sisargas Islands

Nature · Malpica de Bergantiños, Bergantiños, A Coruña

An archipelago of three islands, Sisarga Grande, Sisarga Pequena and Malante, covering 0.8 square kilometres 750 metres off the cabo de Santo Hadrián, on the Costa da Morte, and belonging to the municipality of Malpica de Bergantiños; arranged in an inverted L shape and separated by narrow channels, the largest of the three, Sisarga Grande, reaches 100 metres in altitude and holds a lighthouse and a small jetty. It is designated a ZEPA (Special Protection Area for Birds) for its colonies of lesser black-backed gull, kittiwake and common guillemot, birds that are scarce in Galicia and across the Iberian Peninsula and that find here one of their largest colonies, together with significant populations of European shag, Alpine swift, yellow-legged gull and red-billed chough.

Photo: Ramon Piñeiro (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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