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Lagos is a municipality in the district of Faro (sub-region: Algarve), covering 213 km² in 5 parishes. 62 % 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 172 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Lagos, Luz and Espiche. 51 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Porto de Mós, Funchal and Cerro Lamy.

Parcels with a clearing duty
4,222 of 5,721 parcels
Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
Area to clear (mapped parcels)
1,668 ha
Villages
172