AceiroDistrict: Braga · Ave
Vizela
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Vizela is a municipality in the district of Braga (sub-region: Ave), covering 25 km² in 6 parishes. 41 % 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 42 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vizela, Revinhade and Tagilde. 9 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Vizela (São Paio).
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 702 of 1,110 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 489 ha
- Villages
- 42
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 26 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.