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Alcobaça is a municipality in the district of Leiria (sub-region: Oeste), covering 408 km² in 13 parishes. 59 % of it 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 564 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Benedita, Pataias and São Martinho do Porto. 201 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Azambujeira, Burinhosa and Martingança.

Parcels with a clearing duty
15,146 of 31,732 parcels
Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
Area to clear (mapped parcels)
2,640 ha
Villages
564