District: Guarda · Douro
Vila Nova de Foz Côa
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Vila Nova de Foz Côa is a municipality in the district of Guarda (sub-region: Douro), covering 398 km² in 14 parishes. 54 % 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 56 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vila Nova de Foz Coa, Castelo Melhor and Chãs. 2 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 3,456 of 9,639 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 573 ha
- Villages
- 56