Monção

Monção is a municipality in the district of Viana do Castelo (sub-region: Alto Minho), covering 211 km² in 24 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 324 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Monção, Troviscoso and Cortes. 67 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Troporiz, Santiago and Sande.