São Brás de Alportel

São Brás de Alportel is a municipality in the district of Faro (sub-region: Algarve), covering 153 km² in one parish. Most of it, 80 %, 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 144 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are São Brás de Alportel, Soalheira and Alportel. 26 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Parises, Javali and Cabeça do Velho.