Cabeceiras de Basto

Cabeceiras de Basto is a municipality in the district of Braga (sub-region: Ave), covering 242 km² in 14 parishes. Most of it — 77 % — 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 215 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Cabeceiras de Basto, Arco de Baúlhe and Basto. 68 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Outeiro, Baloutas and Gondiães.