AceiroDistrict: Braga · Cávado
Barcelos
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Barcelos is a municipality in the district of Braga (sub-region: Cávado), covering 379 km² in 65 parishes. 45 % 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 567 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Tamel (São Veríssimo), Carapeços and Barcelos. 86 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Paço.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 14,522 of 33,876 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 4,627 ha
- Villages
- 567
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 47 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.