Santiago do Cacém

Santiago do Cacém is a municipality in the district of Setúbal (sub-region: Alentejo Litoral), covering 1,060 km² in 9 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 272 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Santiago do Cacém, Ermidas-Sado and Alvalade. 45 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Cruz de João Mendes, Costa de Santo André and Foros do Cabeço.