AceiroDistrict: Bragança · Terras de Trás-os-Montes
Vinhais
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Vinhais is a municipality in the district of Bragança (sub-region: Terras de Trás-os-Montes), covering 695 km² in 26 parishes. 66 % 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 169 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vinhais, Rebordelo and Moimenta. 21 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Pinheiro Novo, Vale de Janeiro and Sandim.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 6,963 of 58,256 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 1,074 ha
- Villages
- 169
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 36 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.