Plan of Areas of Natural Interest (PEIN) v1.0 - May 2026
Limits of the areas of natural interest defined in Decree 328/1992, which approves the Plan of areas of natural interest (PEIN), and any subsequent modifications that may have occurred. This base includes spaces at a scale of 1:50 000 and, in some cases, 1:5 000. The PEIN establishes a network of spaces representative of the rich landscape and biodiversity of the territory of Catalonia, from high mountains to coastal plains, and from Euro-Siberian forests to semi-desert wastelands or marine spaces. The PEIN is the higher level planning instrument that structures the system of protected areas of Catalonia and integrates this system within the whole territory, as it is a sectorial territorial plan framed within the Territorial Plan of Catalonia (1995). Subsequent to its approval, specific modifications to the rules and limits have been approved by decree, as well as extensions or additions of new spaces.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2026-05-22
- Identifier
- IDEC / espais-interes-natural-v1r0
- Identifier
- DGPAMN / pein-2026
- Purpose
- The objective of this geoinformation is: To delimit and establish the necessary measures for the basic protection of natural spaces, whose conservation it is necessary to ensure, in accordance with the scientific, ecological, landscape, cultural, social, educational and recreational values that they possess; Facilitate knowledge, by the public administration and citizens, of the territorial limits of natural spaces, as well as their identification and surface; Provide a reference base for the development of any activity that has a territorial impact and that must take into account the existence of protected sites. They are especially relevant in the field of technical activities, management, planning or administration of the territory; Make it possible to carry out operations and consultations for territorial analysis or incidence with other geographic information data sets.
Owner
Directorate General for Environmental Policies and the Natural Environment (Generalitat de Catalunya)
https://mediambient.gencat.cat
- Theme
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- PEIN
- Natural spaces
- Protected spaces
- Regional planning
- Monitoring plan
- IDEC - llocs
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- Catalonia
- Spain
- Europe
- IDEC - temes
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- Hub litoral
- SIDL
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Other constraints
- Legal notice gencat.cat
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 5000
- Denominator
- 50000
- Metadata language
- Catalan; Valencian
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
- Description
- Spatial extent covers the entire territory of Catalonia and the adjacent marine area. Temporal extent refers to the date of the data.
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- Unique resource identifier
- ETRS89 UTM zone 31 North (EPSG:25831)
- Topology level
- Full planar graph
- Geometric object type
- Surface
Distributor
Directorate General for Environmental Policies and the Natural Environment (Generalitat de Catalunya)
https://mediambient.gencat.cat
- OnLine resource
- Data download
- OnLine resource
- Visualization and Data download - Hipermapa
- Units of distribution
- Layer: ESPAISNATURALS_PEIN
- OnLine resource
- WMS view service ( OGC Web Map Service )
- Units of distribution
- Layer: ESPAISNATURALS_PEIN
- OnLine resource
- WFS download service ( OGC Web Feature Service )
- OnLine resource
- Territorial API
- OnLine resource
- Technical specifications
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
- Name of measure
- Conformity with the technical specification approved by the Cartographic Coordination Commission of Catalonia
Conformance result
Domain consistency
- Name of measure
- Compliance with INSPIRE requirements (data)
- Evaluation method description
- The data of this dataset do not aim to achieve compliance with INSPIRE regulations. For this reason, its conformity is not evaluated and it is declared not conformant compliant by default.
Conformance result
Domain consistency
- Name of measure
- Compliance with INSPIRE requirements (metadata)
- Evaluation method description
- The metadata is reviewed for compliance with the INSPIRE specifications, in accordance with the criteria defined in the current Technical Guides. The metadata is considered compliant if the only notices identified are related to the use of Catalan as the main language of the register, a language that is not included in the list of languages provided for in the INSPIRE directive.
Conformance result
- Statement
- The initial digitization of the spaces was done using the Topographic Base 1:50 000 of the ICGC and, in the successive revisions, the Topographic Base 1:5 000 (of the ICGC) is used, following in any case the description of the delimitation of the different spaces and later modifications. The use of one Base or the other in the digitization of the polygons is indicated as an attribute of them.
- Description
- Topographic bases of the ICGC.
- Description
- Legal description of the spaces delimitation.
- File identifier
- espais-interes-natural-v1r0-202605 XML
- Metadata language
- Catalan; Valencian
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-06-19
- Metadata standard name
- IDEC profile of metadata of spatial datasets
- Metadata standard version
- Version 5.0
Overviews
Spatial extent
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Associated resources
Not available
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