Vila Pouca de Aguiar

Vila Pouca de Aguiar is a municipality in the district of Vila Real (sub-region: Alto Tâmega e Barroso), covering 437 km² in 14 parishes. Most of it, 75 %, 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 197 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Pedras Salgadas and Campo de Jales. 48 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Sabroso de Aguiar, Vreia de Bornes and Vilela da Cabugueira.