District: Santarém · Lezíria do Tejo
Chamusca
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Chamusca is a municipality in the district of Santarém (sub-region: Lezíria do Tejo), covering 746 km² in 5 parishes. Most of it, 82 %, 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 97 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Chamusca, Carregueira and Vale de Cavalos. 20 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Gaviãozinho, Ponte da Chamusca and Casalinho.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 2,455 of 4,879 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 914 ha
- Villages
- 97