Aceiro

Olhão is a municipality in the district of Faro (sub-region: Algarve), covering 131 km² in 5 parishes. Only 22 % 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 282 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Olhão, Fuseta and Armona. 28 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Pés do Cerro and São Miguel.

Parcels with a clearing duty
7,887 of 12,733 parcels
Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
Area to clear (mapped parcels)
1,171 ha
Villages
282