AceiroDistrict: Viana do Castelo · Alto Minho
Vila Nova de Cerveira
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Vila Nova de Cerveira is a municipality in the district of Viana do Castelo (sub-region: Alto Minho), covering 109 km² in 11 parishes. 74 % 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 133 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vila Nova de Cerveira, Quinta and Reboreda. 67 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Loivo, Valinho and Lovelhe.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 4,381 of 10,112 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 1,276 ha
- Villages
- 133
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 24 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.