AceiroDistrict: Coimbra · Região de Coimbra
Penela
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Penela is a municipality in the district of Coimbra (sub-region: Região de Coimbra), covering 135 km² in 4 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 131 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Espinhal, Penela and Grocinas. 48 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Ferraria de São João, Favacal and Cumeeira.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 6,775 of 24,718 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 930 ha
- Villages
- 131
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 48 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.