AceiroDistrict: Aveiro · Tâmega e Sousa
Castelo de Paiva
Legal regime in 2026: DL 82/2021 (sub-regional programme approved)
Castelo de Paiva is a municipality in the district of Aveiro (sub-region: Tâmega e Sousa), covering 115 km² in 9 parishes. Most of it, 75 %, 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 146 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Castelo de Paiva, Nojões and Oliveira do Arda. 62 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Santa Cecília, Raiva and Serradelo.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 3,489 of 7,389 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 1,337 ha
- Villages
- 146
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 47 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.