Coruche

Coruche is a municipality in the district of Santarém (sub-region: Lezíria do Tejo), covering 1,116 km² in 8 parishes. Most of it — 76 % — 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 321 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Coruche, Couço and Santana do Mato. 83 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them São José da Lamarosa, Volta do Vale and Foros do Ameixial.