Boticas

Boticas is a municipality in the district of Vila Real (sub-region: Alto Tâmega e Barroso), covering 322 km² in 10 parishes. Most of it — 80 % — 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 94 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Boticas, Sapiãos and Pinho. 18 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Sapiãos, Torneiros and Sobradelo.