Belmonte

Belmonte is a municipality in the district of Castelo Branco (sub-region: Beiras e Serra da Estrela), covering 119 km² in 5 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 60 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Belmonte, Colmeal da Torre and Caria. 9 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them.