AceiroDistrict: Viana do Castelo · Alto Minho
Viana do Castelo
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Viana do Castelo is a municipality in the district of Viana do Castelo (sub-region: Alto Minho), covering 319 km² in 30 parishes. 60 % 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 261 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Viana do Castelo, Barroselas and Castelo do Neiva. 81 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Afife, Amorosa and Meixedo.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 13,951 of 42,522 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 3,233 ha
- Villages
- 261
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.