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Portimão is a municipality in the district of Faro (sub-region: Algarve), covering 182 km² in 3 parishes. 55 % 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 150 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Portimão, Alvor and Alto do Poço. 33 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Mexilhoeira Grande, Porto de Lagos and Fontaínhas.

Parcels with a clearing duty
2,963 of 3,788 parcels
Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
Area to clear (mapped parcels)
1,418 ha
Villages
150