Loures

Loures is a municipality in the district of Lisboa (sub-region: Grande Lisboa), covering 167 km² in 10 parishes. 47 % 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 237 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Póvoa de Santa Iria, Apelação and São Sebastião de Guerreiros. 101 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Lousa, Montemor and Bairro da Bogalheira.