District: Santarém · Lezíria do Tejo
Benavente
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Benavente is a municipality in the district of Santarém (sub-region: Lezíria do Tejo), covering 521 km² in 4 parishes. 50 % 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 188 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Samora Correia, Benavente and Santo Estêvão. 25 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 2,074 of 3,163 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 1,129 ha
- Villages
- 188