District: Viseu · Viseu Dão Lafões
Sátão
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Sátão is a municipality in the district of Viseu (sub-region: Viseu Dão Lafões), covering 202 km² in 9 parishes. Most of it, 76 %, 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 159 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Sátão, Lamas and Rio de Moinhos. 43 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Sátão, Meã and Rãs.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 10,173 of 33,787 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 1,983 ha
- Villages
- 159
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 42 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.