AceiroDistrict: Vila Real · Alto Tâmega e Barroso
Chaves
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Chaves is a municipality in the district of Vila Real (sub-region: Alto Tâmega e Barroso), covering 591 km² in 39 parishes. 62 % 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 345 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Chaves, Madalena and Vidago. 49 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Castelo, Bustelo and Parada.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 11,372 of 47,379 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 3,273 ha
- Villages
- 345
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 35 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.