Aceiro

Ílhavo is a municipality in the district of Aveiro (sub-region: Região de Aveiro), covering 74 km² in 4 parishes. Only 28 % 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 79 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Gafanha da Nazaré, Barra and Gafanha de Aquém. 25 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Ermida.

Parcels with a clearing duty
3,128 of 6,860 parcels
Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
Area to clear (mapped parcels)
262 ha
Villages
79