Ribeira de Pena

Ribeira de Pena is a municipality in the district of Vila Real (sub-region: Alto Tâmega e Barroso), covering 218 km² in 5 parishes. Most of it — 82 % — 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 167 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Ribeira de Pena, Balteiro and Cerva. 48 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Bragadas, Abelheira and Minas de São João.