AceiroDistrict: Porto · Tâmega e Sousa
Lousada
Legal regime in 2026: DL 82/2021 (sub-regional programme approved)
Lousada is a municipality in the district of Porto (sub-region: Tâmega e Sousa), covering 96 km² in 16 parishes. 41 % 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 171 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Lousada, Lustosa and Meinedo. 32 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Sousela and Eiras.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 3,455 of 5,681 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 1,707 ha
- Villages
- 171
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.