AceiroDistrict: Bragança · Terras de Trás-os-Montes
Bragança
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Bragança is a municipality in the district of Bragança (sub-region: Terras de Trás-os-Montes), covering 1,174 km² in 39 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 279 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Bragança, Babe and São Pedro de Sarracenos. 21 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them França, Aveleda and Portelo.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 8,787 of 82,306 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 1,863 ha
- Villages
- 279
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 40 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.