Amares

Amares is a municipality in the district of Braga (sub-region: Cávado), covering 82 km² in 16 parishes. 55 % 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 136 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Amares, Lago and Bico. 44 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Santa Maria do Bouro, Paradela and Portela.