El Salvador

202 Total Protected Areas

15 With management effectiveness evaluations

Terrestrial Protected Areas

Marine Protected Areas

Other effective area-based conservation measures

0 Total Other effective area-based conservation measures

Polygons/Points ratio

Polygons 100%

Points 0%

Terrestrial Protected Areas Coverage

8.64% Coverage

1,778km² Land Area Protected

20,573km² Total Land Area

PAME

0.29% With management effectiveness evaluations

61km² Areas Assessed

Marine Protected Areas Coverage

0.71% Coverage

666km² Marine and Coastal Area Protected

94,238km² Marine Area Protected

PAME

0.0% With management effectiveness evaluations

0km² Areas Assessed

Disclaimer: These statistics might differ from those reported officially by countries due to difference in methodologies and datasets used to assess protected area coverage and differences in the base maps used to measure terrestrial and marine area of a country or territory.

IUCN Management Categories

1. II 4, 1.98% View list
2. III 1, 0.5% View list
3. IV 5, 2.48% View list
4. V 13, 6.44% View list
5. Not Reported 176, 87.13% View list
6. Not Applicable 3, 1.49% View list

Governance types

Federal or national ministry or agency 125 View list
Not Reported 62 View list
Collaborative governance 11 View list
Individual landowners 2 View list
Non-profit organisations 1 View list
Sub-national ministry or agency 1 View list

Sources (1)

Protected Areas of El Salvador Updated: 2020 Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN), El Salvador

Designations

National designations

191

National Park 5
Natural Monument 1
Protected Area with Managed Resources 5
Natural Area 63
Habitat Management Area 8
Natural Protected Area 83
Private Natural Protected Area 2
Ecological Park 1
Species/Habitat Management Area 1
Protection and Restoration Area 8
Terrestrial Protected Landscape 14

Regional designations

International designations

UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve 3
Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance 8

Growth in protected area coverage

The graph excludes status years with no information reported (STAT_YR = 0).

El Salvador Protected Areas

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Parque Nacional Montecristo

El Imposible

Colima

citation

UNEP-WCMC (2020). Protected Area Profile for El Salvador from the World Database of Protected Areas, October 2020. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net