District: Viseu · Douro
Penedono
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Penedono is a municipality in the district of Viseu (sub-region: Douro), covering 134 km² in 7 parishes. 63 % 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 43 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Penedono, Beselga and Antas. 5 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them A-do-bispo and Cerro do Melão.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 2,588 of 9,377 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 375 ha
- Villages
- 43