Aceiro

District: Guarda · Beiras e Serra da Estrela

Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo

Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)

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Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo is a municipality in the district of Guarda (sub-region: Beiras e Serra da Estrela), covering 509 km² in 10 parishes. 56 % 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 41 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, Escalhão and Mata de Lobos. 2 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Colmeal.

Parcels with a clearing duty
3,767 of 19,016 parcels
Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
Area to clear (mapped parcels)
489 ha
Villages
41