AceiroDistrict: Aveiro · Região de Aveiro
Ovar
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Ovar is a municipality in the district of Aveiro (sub-region: Região de Aveiro), covering 148 km² in 8 parishes. 50 % 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 135 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Esmoriz, Ovar and Arada. 41 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Furadouro.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 6,155 of 13,981 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 1,725 ha
- Villages
- 135
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 35 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.