District: Coimbra · Região de Coimbra
Cantanhede
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Cantanhede is a municipality in the district of Coimbra (sub-region: Região de Coimbra), covering 391 km² in 15 parishes. 67 % 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 247 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Febres, Cantanhede and Vilamar. 65 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Pena, Praia da Tocha and Barracão.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 16,036 of 64,781 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 1,348 ha
- Villages
- 247