AceiroDistrict: Braga · Ave
Póvoa de Lanhoso
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Póvoa de Lanhoso is a municipality in the district of Braga (sub-region: Ave), covering 135 km² in 22 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 242 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Póvoa de Lanhoso, Campos and Taíde. 86 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Fonte Arcada, Quintela and Friande.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 4,960 of 9,147 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 2,250 ha
- Villages
- 242
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.