District: Santarém · Médio Tejo
Abrantes
Legal regime in 2026: DL 82/2021 (sub-regional programme approved)
Abrantes is a municipality in the district of Santarém (sub-region: Médio Tejo), covering 715 km² in 13 parishes. Most of it — 78 % — is forest land (woodland, scrub or natural pasture, according to the COS 2025 land-cover map): there, the strip around each house is 50 m wide.
The map finds 279 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Abrantes, Pego and Tramagal. 48 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Souto, Carreira do Mato and Arreciadas.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 15,254 of 43,957 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 2,258 ha
- Villages
- 279