District: Bragança · Terras de Trás-os-Montes
Alfândega da Fé
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Alfândega da Fé is a municipality in the district of Bragança (sub-region: Terras de Trás-os-Montes), covering 322 km² in 12 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 48 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Alfândega da Fé, Sambade and Vilar Chão. 3 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Vila Nova.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 3,182 of 18,061 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 390 ha
- Villages
- 48