District: Beja · Baixo Alentejo
Barrancos
Legal regime in 2026: DL 82/2021 (sub-regional programme approved)
Barrancos is a municipality in the district of Beja (sub-region: Baixo Alentejo), covering 168 km² in one parish. 65 % 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 7 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Barrancos and Noudar. 3 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Noudar.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 411 of 729 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 234 ha
- Villages
- 7