District: Portalegre · Alto Alentejo
Nisa
Legal regime in 2026: DL 82/2021 (sub-regional programme approved)
Nisa is a municipality in the district of Portalegre (sub-region: Alto Alentejo), covering 576 km² in 7 parishes. 64 % 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 38 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Nisa, Alpalhão and Tolosa. 3 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 4,948 of 15,220 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 883 ha
- Villages
- 38