District: Vila Real · Douro
Sabrosa
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Sabrosa is a municipality in the district of Vila Real (sub-region: Douro), covering 157 km² in 12 parishes. 58 % 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 83 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Sabrosa, São Martinho de Anta and Souto Maior. 13 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Torre do Pinhão, Garganta and Delegada.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 4,967 of 16,437 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 483 ha
- Villages
- 83