AceiroDistrict: Porto · Área Metropolitana do Porto
Vila Nova de Gaia
Legal regime in 2026: DL 82/2021 (sub-regional programme approved)
Vila Nova de Gaia is a municipality in the district of Porto (sub-region: Área Metropolitana do Porto), covering 169 km² in 24 parishes. 36 % 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 145 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vila Nova de Gaia, Argoncilhe and Perosinho. 73 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Argoncilhe, Lever and Pedroso.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 5,307 of 9,171 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 3,399 ha
- Villages
- 145
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 20 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.