Silves

Silves is a municipality in the district of Faro (sub-region: Algarve), covering 680 km² in 8 parishes. 62 % 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 463 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Algoz, Silves and São Bartolomeu de Messines. 40 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Cumeada, Vale Fontes and Pico Alto.