Gavião

Gavião is a municipality in the district of Portalegre (sub-region: Alto Alentejo), covering 295 km² in 4 parishes. Most of it — 85 % — 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 53 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Gavião, Comenda and Belver. 12 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Gavião, Amieira Cova and São Bartolomeu.