Vila Real de Santo António

Vila Real de Santo António is a municipality in the district of Faro (sub-region: Algarve), covering 61 km² in 3 parishes. 39 % 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 73 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vila Real de Santo António, Vila Nova de Cacela and Monte Gordo. 7 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Casas Novas da Audiência and Cacela Velha.