AceiroDistrict: Braga · Cávado
Vila Verde
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Vila Verde is a municipality in the district of Braga (sub-region: Cávado), covering 229 km² in 33 parishes. 56 % 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 417 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vila Verde, Loureira and Vila de Prado. 123 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Carreiras (Santiago), Portela das Cabras and Lanhas.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 10,424 of 22,655 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 3,727 ha
- Villages
- 417
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 33 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.