AceiroDistrict: Porto · Tâmega e Sousa
Marco de Canaveses
Legal regime in 2026: DL 82/2021 (sub-regional programme approved)
Marco de Canaveses is a municipality in the district of Porto (sub-region: Tâmega e Sousa), covering 202 km² in 17 parishes. 60 % 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 434 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Marco de Canaveses, Ariz and Alpendurada. 156 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Carvalhosa, Torrão and Santo Isidoro.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 4,195 of 6,545 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 4,223 ha
- Villages
- 434
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 27 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.