Celorico de Basto

Celorico de Basto is a municipality in the district of Braga (sub-region: Tâmega e Sousa), covering 181 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 298 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Celorico de Basto, Monte da Raza and Rego. 74 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Arnoia, Veade and Castelo.