AceiroDistrict: Porto · Tâmega e Sousa
Paços de Ferreira
Legal regime in 2026: DL 82/2021 (sub-regional programme approved)
Paços de Ferreira is a municipality in the district of Porto (sub-region: Tâmega e Sousa), covering 71 km² in 16 parishes. 39 % 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 60 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Paços de Ferreira, Lamoso and Seroa. 15 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Encosta de Ferrara.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 2,841 of 5,402 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 1,217 ha
- Villages
- 60
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 28 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.