AceiroDistrict: Porto · Área Metropolitana do Porto
Póvoa de Varzim
Legal regime in 2026: DL 82/2021 (sub-regional programme approved)
Póvoa de Varzim is a municipality in the district of Porto (sub-region: Área Metropolitana do Porto), covering 82 km² in 12 parishes. Only 22 % 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 92 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Póvoa de Varzim, Aguçadoura and Laundos. 7 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 3,547 of 6,762 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 724 ha
- Villages
- 92
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 43 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.