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District: Bragança · Terras de Trás-os-Montes

Miranda do Douro

Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)

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Miranda do Douro is a municipality in the district of Bragança (sub-region: Terras de Trás-os-Montes), covering 487 km² in 13 parishes. 52 % 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 87 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Sendim, Miranda do Douro and Malhadas. 12 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Miranda do Douro, Barrocal do Douro and Granja.

Parcels with a clearing duty
7,423 of 65,011 parcels
Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
Area to clear (mapped parcels)
639 ha
Villages
87