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Ourém is a municipality in the district of Santarém (sub-region: Médio Tejo), covering 417 km² in 16 parishes. 65 % 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 544 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Caxarias, Ourém and Maxieira. 180 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Cercal, Perdigão and Moimento.

Parcels with a clearing duty
14,661 of 33,894 parcels
Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
Strip area (whole municipality)
4,842 ha
Villages
544

BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 36 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.