AceiroDistrict: Viana do Castelo · Alto Minho
Caminha
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Caminha is a municipality in the district of Viana do Castelo (sub-region: Alto Minho), covering 137 km² in 14 parishes. 72 % 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 109 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vila Praia de Âncora, Moledo and Caminha. 52 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Vilar de Mouros, Cristelo and Venade.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 6,026 of 15,961 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 1,288 ha
- Villages
- 109
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 28 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.