Rio Maior

Rio Maior is a municipality in the district of Santarém (sub-region: Lezíria do Tejo), covering 273 km² in 10 parishes. 68 % 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 336 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Rio Maior, Arrouquelas and São João da Ribeira. 128 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Cidral, Carvalhais and Ribeira de Santo André.