District: Guarda · Beiras e Serra da Estrela
Celorico da Beira
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Celorico da Beira is a municipality in the district of Guarda (sub-region: Beiras e Serra da Estrela), covering 247 km² in 16 parishes. 63 % 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 85 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Celorico da Beira, Lajeosa do Mondego and Casas do Soeiro. 8 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Espinheiro.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 5,214 of 11,855 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 950 ha
- Villages
- 85