Murça

Murça is a municipality in the district of Vila Real (sub-region: Douro), covering 189 km² in 7 parishes. 66 % 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 68 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Murça, Fiolhoso and Vilares. 7 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Valongo de Milhais, Mascanho and Paredes.