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Site of Community Importance (SCI)

Dikti: Oropedio Lasithiou, Katharo, Selena, Krasi, Selakano, Chalasmeni Koryfi

Dikti: Oropedio Lasithiou, Katharo, Selena, Krasi, Selakano, Chalasmeni Koryfi (GR4320002) is a Site of Community Importance (SCI) in the Natura 2000 network, 34,656 hectares (347 km²). It lies in the municipalities of Oropedion Lasithiou, Agios Nikolaos, Ierapetra, Viannos and Minoa Pediados (regional units Lasithi and Heraklion, Crete). It is on the island of Crete. According to the European Environment Agency's database (2024 release) it protects 13 habitat types of Annex I and 7 species (reptiles 2, plants 5).

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What it protects

Source: the European Environment Agency's Natura 2000 database, 2024 release, as reported by the member state. Habitat types are shown with their Annex I code and the EEA's English name. Common names of species come from Wikidata where they exist, otherwise the scientific name is shown.

Annex I habitat types
CodeHabitat type (as the EEA gives it)Cover (ha)Priority
5430Endemic phryganas of the Euphorbio-Verbascion7,921–
5420Sarcopoterium spinosum phryganas4,388–
4090Endemic oro-Mediterranean heaths with gorse4,115–
9540Mediterranean pine forests with endemic Mesogean pines2,475–
9290Cupressus forests (Acero-Cupression)438–
9320Olea and Ceratonia forests50–
8140Eastern Mediterranean screes37–
92C0Platanus orientalis and Liquidambar orientalis woods (Platanion orientalis)13–
8210Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation8–
6220Pseudo-steppe with grasses and annuals of the Thero-Brachypodietea1Priority
92D0Southern riparian galleries and thickets (Nerio-Tamaricetea and Securinegion tinctoriae)1–
3290Intermittently flowing Mediterranean rivers of the Paspalo-Agrostidion––
8310Caves not open to the public––

Reptiles (2)

Balkan pond turtle (Mauremys rivulata), European ratsnake (Zamenis situla)

Plants (5)

Cephalanthera cucullata, Convolvulus argyrothamnus, Crepis pusilla, Origanum dictamnus, Zelkova abelicea

Designation

It is protected for the habitat types and species of Annexes I and II of the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) as a Site of Community Importance; member states designate such sites as Special Areas of Conservation (SAC).

Network codes
CodeTypeAreaDesignated (EEA)Name in the EEA register
GR4320002Site of Community Importance (SCI)34,656 haApril 1997DIKTI: OROPEDIO LASITHIOU, KATHARO, SELENA, SELAKANO, CHALASMENI KORYFI

Legal basis: Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC). The register name is the one the EEA publishes.

Places inside and beside the site

Settlements, official bathing-water sites and sights with a page of their own whose point lies inside the boundary or up to 3 km outside it. Inside: 6. Up to 12 per kind are shown, best known first.

Towns and villages: inside the boundary (1)

Towns and villages: within 3 km outside the boundary

Sights: inside the boundary (5)

Sights: within 3 km outside the boundary

Works and permits in the site

Works and plans that could significantly affect a Natura 2000 site need an appropriate assessment of their effects under Article 6(3) of the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC). In Greece this is the Special Ecological Assessment (Ειδική Οικολογική Αξιολόγηση, ΕΟΑ) under law 4014/2011. The Natural Environment and Climate Change Agency (ΟΦΥΠΕΚΑ) is responsible for managing Natura 2000 sites, through the protected-area management bodies.

This page is not legal advice and does not say what is allowed on a particular property. Each site's rules are set in the official texts; for a property or a project, ask the competent authority. Natura 2000 at the European Commission.

How the numbers were counted

The boundary is the Ministry's (YPEN geoportal). The code, name, area, date of designation, habitat types and species are from the EEA's Natura 2000 database (2024 release, fetched 8 Oct 2026). Habitat cover is what the member state reports; where the EEA gives an "unknown" value (9999) or one larger than the site, it is not shown. The EEA gives the marine part only as yes or no, not as a share, and we do not use the "quality and importance" text of the data form. The EEA data is licensed CC BY 4.0 (copyright holder: the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment). The Greek and English names of sites and species, and the Wikipedia article titles, are Wikidata's (CC0).

Municipalities come from sample points inside the boundary: one is named when it holds at least 5% of the points that fall on land. For a purely marine site the nearest coastal municipality (within 60 km) is named. The settlements, beaches and sights are those that have a page on this site; municipal boundaries and island outlines are from OpenStreetMap.

Places nearby

Pages of this site, in a straight line and on the same side of the water, nearest first.

Nearest airport

Nearest ferry port

See also

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from the sources below, with the date each was updated.

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