Castelo Branco

Castelo Branco is a municipality in the district of Castelo Branco (sub-region: Beira Baixa), covering 1,438 km² in 22 parishes. 68 % 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 322 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Castelo Branco, Alcains and Retaxo. 45 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Santo André das Tojeiras, Valbom and Monte do Chaveiro.