Vjosa-Narta Protected Landscape

Vjosa–Nartë Protected Landscape (Albanian: Zona e mbrojtur Vjosë-Nartë) is a protected coastal wetland landscape in south-western Albania, in Vlorë County, near the mouth of the Vjosa River and the Narta Lagoon. The area includes lagoons, saltpans, dunes, coastal forest, agricultural land and settlements along the Adriatic Sea. The protected area was originally declared in 2004 as the protected water-and-land landscape of the Vjosë–Nartë wetland system. In later Albanian official acts it has also been treated under the name Pishë Poro–Nartë Protected Landscape. In 2024, Decision No. 596 of the Council of Ministers re-declared Pishë Poro–Nartë as a water/land protected landscape, Category V, with an area of 16,124.61 ha, and repealed the 2022 decision that had previously reorganised the area. The World Database on Protected Areas, through Protected Planet, lists Vjose-Narte as site ID 196506 with a reported area of 197.38 km².

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