AceiroDistrict: Viseu · Douro
Moimenta da Beira
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Moimenta da Beira is a municipality in the district of Viseu (sub-region: Douro), covering 220 km² in 16 parishes. 68 % 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 139 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Moimenta da Beira, Alvite and Castelo. 25 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Soutosa and Caria.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 7,510 of 25,671 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 1,535 ha
- Villages
- 139
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.