District: Portalegre · Alto Alentejo
Arronches
Legal regime in 2026: DL 82/2021 (sub-regional programme approved)
Arronches is a municipality in the district of Portalegre (sub-region: Alto Alentejo), covering 315 km² in 3 parishes. 38 % 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 44 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Arronches, Esperança and Mosteiros. One of them has forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around it.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 1,076 of 1,631 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 362 ha
- Villages
- 44