District: Lisboa · Lezíria do Tejo
Azambuja
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Azambuja is a municipality in the district of Lisboa (sub-region: Lezíria do Tejo), covering 263 km² in 7 parishes. 46 % 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 239 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Azambuja, Aveiras de Cima and Manique do Intendente. 68 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Casais de Britos, Virtudes and Outeiro.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 5,305 of 10,393 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 1,843 ha
- Villages
- 239