AceiroDistrict: Viana do Castelo · Alto Minho
Arcos de Valdevez
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Arcos de Valdevez is a municipality in the district of Viana do Castelo (sub-region: Alto Minho), covering 448 km² in 36 parishes. Most of it, 82 %, 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 467 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Parada, Soajo and Arcos de Valdevez. 201 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Souto, Vilarinho do Souto and Cunhas.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 16,075 of 38,054 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 4,396 ha
- Villages
- 467
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 26 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.