District: Leiria · Região de Leiria
Batalha
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Batalha is a municipality in the district of Leiria (sub-region: Região de Leiria), covering 103 km² in 4 parishes. 61 % 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 122 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Batalha, Golpilheira and Faniqueira. 40 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Vale de Ourém, Perulheira and São Mamede.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 5,000 of 12,386 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 1,364 ha
- Villages
- 122
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 36 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.