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Sintra is a municipality in the district of Lisboa (sub-region: Grande Lisboa), covering 319 km² in 15 parishes. 44 % 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 549 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Algueirão-Mem Martins, Trajouce and Agualva-Cacém. 213 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Sintra, Belas and Mancebas.

Parcels with a clearing duty
17,776 of 36,802 parcels
Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
Area to clear (mapped parcels)
4,993 ha
Villages
549