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Torres Vedras is a municipality in the district of Lisboa (sub-region: Oeste), covering 407 km² in 15 parishes. 40 % 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 550 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Silveira, Campelos and Torres Vedras. 119 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Maceira, Paul and Outeiro da Cabeça.

Parcels with a clearing duty
17,881 of 33,856 parcels
Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
Area to clear (mapped parcels)
4,015 ha
Villages
550