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