Penafiel

Penafiel is a municipality in the district of Porto (sub-region: Tâmega e Sousa), covering 212 km² in 28 parishes. 56 % 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 384 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Penafiel, Paço de Sousa and Portela. 104 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Rio Mau, Sebolido and Bairros.