AceiroDistrict: Porto · Tâmega e Sousa
Amarante
Legal regime in 2026: DL 82/2021 (sub-regional programme approved)
Amarante is a municipality in the district of Porto (sub-region: Tâmega e Sousa), covering 301 km² in 26 parishes. 68 % 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 483 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vila Meã, Santão and Amarante. 141 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Vila Caiz, Pidre and Lufrei.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 8,784 of 15,151 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 4,543 ha
- Villages
- 483
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 49 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.