Marvão

Marvão is a municipality in the district of Portalegre (sub-region: Alto Alentejo), covering 155 km² in 4 parishes. 71 % 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 75 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Santo António das Areias, Porto de Espada and Barretos. 31 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Santo António das Areias, Cabeçudos and Aldeamento Campo Golfe.