Vieira do Minho

Vieira do Minho is a municipality in the district of Braga (sub-region: Ave), covering 216 km² in 16 parishes. Most of it — 80 % — 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 238 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Guilhofrei, Tabuaças and Vieira do Minho. 106 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Parada de Bouro, Vieira do Minho and Ruivães.