AceiroDistrict: Braga · Ave
Guimarães
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Guimarães is a municipality in the district of Braga (sub-region: Ave), covering 241 km² in 55 parishes. 45 % 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 363 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Pevidém, Caldas das Taipas and Guimarães. 84 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Pinheiro, Pencelo and Barroco.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 4,876 of 8,115 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 4,064 ha
- Villages
- 363
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 32 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.