Pinhel

Pinhel is a municipality in the district of Guarda (sub-region: Beiras e Serra da Estrela), covering 485 km² in 18 parishes. 62 % 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 101 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Pinhel, Malta and Freixedas. 8 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Gouveias, Argomil and João Durão.