Elvas

Elvas is a municipality in the district of Portalegre (sub-region: Alto Alentejo), covering 631 km² in 8 parishes. Only 29 % 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 109 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Elvas, Vila Boim and Santa Eulália. 2 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Aldeia do Pombal.