AceiroDistrict: Bragança · Terras de Trás-os-Montes
Macedo de Cavaleiros
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Macedo de Cavaleiros is a municipality in the district of Bragança (sub-region: Terras de Trás-os-Montes), covering 699 km² in 30 parishes. 53 % 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 148 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Macedo de Cavaleiros, Morais and Talhas. 7 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Vale Pradinhos and Comunhas.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 6,356 of 44,908 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 1,150 ha
- Villages
- 148
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 48 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.