Pedrógão Grande (Portuguese pronunciation: [pɨˈðɾɔɣɐ̃w ˈɡɾɐ̃dɨ] ⓘ; Proto-Celtic: *Pendraganum) is a municipality in the district of Leiria in Portugal.
[2] The town itself has fewer than 2,000 inhabitants, with the remaining population living in several small villages surrounded by forests.
The present mayor is Valdemar Gomes Fernandes Alves, an independent elected in 2013 by the Social Democratic Party.
The municipality is located in a large region of granite and shale in the basin of the Zêzere and Unhais rivers and the streams of Pêra and Mega, currently enlarged by the reservoirs of two large dams: Cabril and Bouçã.
The municipality and surrounding region has suffered in the 2017 Portugal wildfires, leaving 64 dead, over 250 injured and forty evacuated villages.