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Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Land uses. Counties, areas and provinces 2006
Forest area Cropland
Woods Scrubland Others No vegetation Dry farming Irrigated Urban and others (1)
Alt Camp 10,148 8,787 3,472 4,139 19,744 3,979 3,501
Alt Empordà 63,226 7,901 15,478 6,691 24,445 12,619 5,343
Alt Penedès 12,536 15,249 690 1,978 22,833 162 5,872
Alt Urgell 57,549 34,772 41,572 3,666 4,034 2,399 708
Alta Ribagorça 6,180 10,156 24,439 827 592 184 412
Anoia 29,601 13,823 5,889 1,994 29,610 372 5,461
Bages 66,181 27,241 3,228 3,769 21,765 909 6,744
Baix Camp 14,641 13,132 4,810 5,891 12,905 10,050 8,301
Baix Ebre 16,035 15,689 9,608 5,194 32,585 17,431 3,398
Baix Empordà 19,682 12,318 4,178 2,777 13,166 9,132 9,007
Baix Llobregat 11,678 10,898 1,502 2,684 2,962 2,487 16,369
Baix Penedès 7,244 7,970 35 1,354 7,827 321 4,829
Barcelonès 1,598 941 133 109 28 76 11,485
Berguedà 60,112 15,511 28,174 2,362 10,083 69 2,201
Cerdanya 24,426 13,086 11,311 1,396 2,145 923 1,719
Conca de Barberà 11,752 14,633 4,510 5,030 27,245 434 1,416
Garraf 3,544 6,916 342 738 1,891 170 4,859
Garrigues 13,222 11,917 3,041 1,063 36,101 12,108 2,338
Garrotxa 41,011 14,156 5,231 1,025 8,208 1,567 2,232
Gironès 21,031 13,409 1,524 2,462 9,863 4,229 5,082
Maresme 20,489 2,994 923 2,058 833 2,957 9,496
Montsià 9,081 12,818 947 5,392 23,501 18,961 3,090
Noguera 15,328 60,238 19,806 4,899 49,330 25,442 3,297
Osona 66,828 10,189 9,327 4,758 28,719 601 5,929
Pallars Jussà 29,091 35,228 44,331 3,262 17,529 3,014 1,955
Pallars Sobirà 61,845 2,935 65,663 1,660 2,071 321 1,395
Pla d'Urgell 28 0 595 1,147 726 26,263 1,811
Pla de l'Estany 10,820 2,945 898 988 8,158 984 1,527
Priorat 8,668 11,490 5,867 5,577 13,645 2,519 1,904
Ribera d'Ebre 22,920 15,798 5,349 10,429 18,443 7,722 1,939
Ripollès 39,566 3,995 45,980 4,487 678 20 1,064
Segarra 3,889 14,833 3,465 764 47,204 188 1,927
Segrià 5,701 9,414 7,769 6,431 37,409 66,815 6,181
Selva 60,280 13,414 3,262 2,540 6,752 4,285 9,109
Solsonès 73,742 1,315 3,034 1,418 19,135 51 1,485
Tarragonès 2,099 6,276 476 1,753 9,187 3,919 8,640
Terra Alta 32,408 8,598 591 1,284 29,403 368 1,558
Urgell 2,324 2,610 2,780 1,172 31,074 15,929 2,041
Val d'Aran 27,037 8,717 25,914 883 51 0 688
Vallès Occidental 23,036 8,065 1,170 2,494 4,173 601 18,761
Vallès Oriental 46,408 7,255 2,655 2,951 8,398 2,560 14,943
Catalonia 1,052,985 507,632 419,969 121,496 644,451 263,141 200,017
Metropolità 119,289 52,318 7,415 13,012 41,118 9,013 81,785
Comarques Gironines 255,616 68,138 76,551 20,970 71,270 32,836 33,364
Camp de Tarragona 54,552 62,288 19,170 23,744 90,553 21,222 28,591
Terres de l'Ebre 80,444 52,903 16,495 22,299 103,932 44,482 9,985
Ponent 40,492 99,012 37,456 15,476 201,844 146,745 17,595
Comarques Centrals 296,464 68,079 49,652 14,301 109,312 2,002 21,820
Alt Pirineu i Aran 206,128 104,894 213,230 11,694 26,422 6,841 6,877
Barcelona 334,783 117,590 50,618 25,920 130,891 11,011 101,945
Girona 270,643 74,046 83,475 21,583 72,893 33,631 34,662
Lleida 312,563 200,805 250,211 27,950 246,182 152,795 24,834
Tarragona 134,996 115,191 35,665 46,043 194,485 65,704 38,576
Units: Hectares.
Source: Departament d'Agricultura, Alimentació i Acció Rural.
Note: (1) Urban land, urbanisable land and infrastructures.

Last update: November 27, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Cropland
Includes sowed land, plantations of annual and multi-annual species (herbaceous, woody, irrigated, rainfed crops, and also fallow crops)
Land with no vegetation
Includes bare soils, rocky land, escarpments, gorges, dunes, beaches and glaciers, as well as rivers, lakes and reservoirs.
Urban land, urbanisable land and infrastructures
Includes urban and urbanisable areas, low intensity urban zones, industrial and commercial zones, road infrastructures, etc.
Forest surface
Area covered by trees or shrubs and not for agricultural purposes. Includes: woods (land populated by trees), and scrubland (maquis scrubland, garrigues, brolles, thickets and areas of transition between woods and scrubland), other vegetation (meadows, pastures, grasslands, wetland vegetation, wasteland and burned areas), plantations and other areas associated to operations, such as forest paths and fire-breaks.
Land uses
According to different uses, the land is classified into: forest area, cropland, land with no vegetation and urban land, urbanisable land and infrastructures.

Methodological aspects

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".