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City Statistics
Population
11 836
Area
182.11 km²
District
Viana do Castelo
NUTS II
Norte
Category Breakdown
Performance across 6 scoring categories
People & Families
6.6 / 20
Economy & Jobs
8.1 / 20
Housing & Cost
7.0 / 20
Governance
7.3 / 20
Environment
6.4 / 20
News Radar
5.5 / 20
Top Scoring Drivers
Key indicators affecting this city's score
Cafes per 10k Residents
33 per 10k
Data from 2026
P94
Electricity Consumption per Capita
2540 kWh
Data from 2024
P94
Driving Without License
0.4‰
Data from 2025
P93
National Media Attention
0.0%
Data from 2026
P0
Editorial Balance Index
0.00
Data from 2026
P0
Museums
0
Data from 2025
P1
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PDM — map and rules
Land classes, constraints and building rules for the concelho.
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City Strategy
Knowledge-base coverage
What a Foral Terra report for this municipality can decide today, and what it withholds.
Coverage of this analysis: between 21% and 28%
- · Land applicability to be confirmed
- · Document available — needs validation
- · Document available — needs validation — Agricultural support
These open questions could change the conclusion.
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- · Document available — needs validation — Agriculture
- · Document available — needs validation — Commerce
- · Document available — needs validation — Housing extension
- · Document available — needs validation — New housing
- · Document available — needs validation — Housing reconstruction
- · Document available — needs validation — Industry
- · Document available — needs validation — Rural tourism in an existing building
- · Document available — needs validation — Tourist housing in an existing building
The conclusions for Equipment, New hotel are still subject to confirmation and could still change.
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3 of 11 menu operations have a published framework in this release:
Next scheduled review: 2027-01-16. This is an internal review date, not a legal validity date: the law can change before it.
Per operation
- Agricultural support — Published framework
- Agriculture — Partial evidence
- Commerce — Needs confirmation
- Equipment — Published framework
- Housing extension — Needs confirmation
- New housing — Needs confirmation
- Housing reconstruction — Partial evidence
- Industry — Needs confirmation
- Rural tourism in an existing building — Needs confirmation
- Tourist housing in an existing building — Needs confirmation
- New hotel — Published framework
This municipality's own plan text
1 document version(s) with 5 citable provisions.
- · This release was assembled automatically and has not been reviewed by an operator.
- · The release does not contain the plan text currently served for this municipality (it is quarantined or awaiting re-certification), so it cannot be cited for it.