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This paper aims to make visible the importance of wetlands in the context of water and ecosystem sustainability, in the context of their legal protection. This reflection is relevant forty years after the 1985 Water Law, which for the first time incorporated an ecological vision of water and also established measures for the defense and restoration of wetlands. In particular, this vision is embodied in the so-called «Mar de Ontígola», as a catalogued wetland at risk in the Community of Madrid., Water, Water Sustainability, Wetlands, Mar de Ontígola, Legal Protection, Aquatic Ecosystems