page_title: Circeo National Park
section_title: Humid areas
hierarchical_section_title: Circeo National Park / Territory / Humid areas
caption_attribution_description: Parco Nazionale del Circeo - Laghi costieri
context_page_description: Circeo National Park is an Italian national park founded in 1934. It occupies a strip of coastal land from Anzio to Terracina, including also a sector of forest in the mainland of San Felice Circeo, and the island of Zannone.
  The park was established by order of Benito Mussolini, under advice from Senator Raffaele Bastianelli, to preserve the last remains of the Pontine Marshes which were being reclaimed in that period. It is the only national park in Italy to occupy only a plain and coastal area.
context_section_description: The humid area of the Circeo park includes four coastal salt lakes: Paola, Caprolace, Monaci and Fogliano, which are what remains of the Pontine Marshes and currently are home to a vast wildlife of aquatic birds (cattle egret, crane, goose, northern lapwing, skylark, curlew), as well as to rare species such as the marsh turtle. With a maximum depth of two meters, they are connected to the sea through a series of canals. 
  Other species present in the area include badger, wild boar, fox, crested porcupine, wild weasel, and European hedgehog. Vegetation is composed, on the lakes' shores, by salicornia (Arthrocnemum glaucum), inula and tamarisk among the others.
  Apart the lakes, there are some further smaller marshy area in which domestic water buffalo shepherding is practiced.
caption: Aerial view of the coastal lakes.
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