Penamacor

Penamacor is a municipality in the district of Castelo Branco (sub-region: Beira Baixa), covering 564 km² in 9 parishes. Most of it, 75 %, 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 55 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Benquerença, Aldeia do Bispo and Penamacor. 5 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Salvador.