District: Viseu · Viseu Dão Lafões
Mangualde
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Mangualde is a municipality in the district of Viseu (sub-region: Viseu Dão Lafões), covering 219 km² in 12 parishes. 67 % 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 224 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Mangualde, Mangualde Gare and Moimenta de Maceira Dão. 37 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Penedo da Feiticeira, Termas de Alcafache and Mosteirinho.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 12,158 of 27,006 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 1,742 ha
- Villages
- 224