Covilhã

Covilhã is a municipality in the district of Castelo Branco (sub-region: Beiras e Serra da Estrela), covering 556 km² in 25 parishes. 72 % 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 254 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Covilhã, Tortosendo and Paul. 53 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Barroca Grande, Penhas da Saúde and São Jorge da Beira.