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