Sabugal

Sabugal is a municipality in the district of Guarda (sub-region: Beiras e Serra da Estrela), covering 823 km² in 30 parishes. Most of it, 75 %, 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 160 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Souto, Aldeia da Ponte and Vale de Espinho. 45 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Alfaiates, Vila do Touro and Sortelha.