Portugal's national network of protected areas, published by the nature conservation institute ICNF, has 56 protected areas, and one of them is classified as a national park: Peneda-Gerês. The others are natural parks, nature reserves, protected landscapes and other classes.1
Which national park does ICNF list?
The network's data has 56 areas, each with a classification; only Peneda-Gerês is classified as Parque Nacional. The data gives the act that classified it and a later act.1
We give the decree-law as the data writes it rather than work out a year from its number. ICNF's own metadata page lists it among the decree-laws in force for each protected area.1
Can this list be reused?
The dataset record on dados.gov.pt gives the licence as CC BY 4.0, and ICNF's metadata asks that any use always state the data's provenance and authorship: ICNF.1
What this page cannot tell you
- Other classes are not here. Natural parks and other protected areas are separate classifications, so they are not on this page.
Related: National parks around the world · National parks of Japan · Officially recognised places.
Key takeaways
- ICNF's data has one national park, Peneda-Gerês.
- The other protected areas in the network have other classifications.
- The decree is shown exactly as the data gives it.
- What we would skip: reading the list as a ranking or a travel guide. It records an official designation; it says nothing about opening, access or conditions, so check each park's own information before you go.
Sources
Everything on this page comes from ICNF's dataset Rede Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (RNAP), its record on dados.gov.pt and its metadata page, read on 1 October 2026. See how we research.
- Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas (ICNF), Rede Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (RNAP). Read the dataset record on dados.gov.pt. Accessed 1 October 2026.
Credit and licence. Fonte: ICNF - Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas, I.P., Rede Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (RNAP), https://dados.gov.pt/datasets/rede-nacional-de-areas-protegidas-rnap - CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Adapted (list extracted). CC BY 4.0. Changes made. We extracted the national park from the dataset and translated the explanations into English. We use no logos or images from these sources. Gallivanting Gadabout is not connected with, or endorsed by, ICNF.