District: Santarém · Médio Tejo
Vila Nova da Barquinha
Legal regime in 2026: DL 82/2021 (sub-regional programme approved)
Vila Nova da Barquinha is a municipality in the district of Santarém (sub-region: Médio Tejo), covering 50 km² in 4 parishes. 66 % 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 38 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vila Nova da Barquinha, Atalaia and Praia do Ribatejo. 9 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 1,340 of 2,947 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 308 ha
- Villages
- 38