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Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Land uses. Counties, areas and provinces 2008
Forest area Cropland
Woods Scrubland Others No vegetation Dry farming Irrigated Urban and others (1)
Alt Camp 14,385 12,211 0 1,121 18,785 4,165 3,103
Alt Empordà 55,210 25,183 4,602 4,382 24,605 13,919 7,802
Alt Penedès 13,645 13,081 1,836 2,166 22,423 300 5,869
Alt Urgell 91,672 36,999 5,641 2,378 3,802 2,262 1,946
Alta Ribagorça 16,332 22,905 1,541 829 590 180 413
Anoia 29,627 14,136 5,499 2,520 28,971 438 5,559
Bages 66,164 24,310 4,522 4,900 21,948 821 7,295
Baix Camp 19,137 17,272 5,552 3,120 6,472 11,890 6,287
Baix Ebre 14,537 24,349 2,586 4,691 31,024 17,846 4,907
Baix Empordà 29,873 6,459 2,711 4,074 12,153 8,906 6,084
Baix Llobregat 11,666 10,255 1,957 3,512 2,084 2,102 17,004
Baix Penedès 7,214 8,051 0 1,475 8,167 371 4,302
Barcelonès 1,416 1,043 125 156 25 56 11,549
Berguedà 63,420 19,694 20,960 2,325 9,916 87 2,110
Cerdanya 24,549 16,888 7,368 1,081 2,286 822 2,012
Conca de Barberà 20,715 13,504 460 3,028 24,872 341 2,100
Garraf 3,848 6,711 469 938 1,647 134 4,713
Garrigues 13,464 15,604 34 1,062 35,885 11,404 2,337
Garrotxa 56,658 2,381 4,108 1,122 5,760 1,294 2,107
Gironès 33,570 2,100 220 1,924 10,425 4,237 5,124
Maresme 20,582 2,224 1,875 2,180 726 2,909 9,254
Montsià 9,293 13,232 2,726 5,633 21,511 18,324 3,071
Noguera 59,700 36,827 584 4,950 46,189 26,676 3,414
Osona 74,231 11,606 4,088 4,517 25,507 721 5,681
Pallars Jussà 55,483 50,915 4,497 3,225 15,714 2,807 1,769
Pallars Sobirà 62,943 61,718 6,274 1,664 1,634 263 1,394
Pla d'Urgell 33 509 10 1,147 592 26,408 1,871
Pla de l'Estany 13,924 1,272 523 822 7,263 1,149 1,367
Priorat 19,971 15,730 0 1,091 9,890 2,039 949
Ribera d'Ebre 19,593 25,876 7,424 8,357 12,480 6,796 2,074
Ripollès 51,918 4,318 34,338 2,670 1,117 9 1,420
Segarra 9,437 13,520 1,899 772 44,452 229 1,961
Segrià 9,116 17,268 489 6,850 34,297 65,238 6,462
Selva 69,897 6,743 2,067 3,020 5,014 4,116 8,785
Solsonès 58,561 18,913 909 1,641 18,818 24 1,314
Tarragonès 4,080 4,579 0 2,349 8,561 3,630 8,541
Terra Alta 25,824 17,164 0 933 28,062 923 1,304
Urgell 3,580 5,180 92 1,170 30,435 15,354 2,119
Val d'Aran 21,856 35,232 4,566 862 51 0 723
Vallès Occidental 23,326 7,555 554 3,132 4,050 584 19,116
Vallès Oriental 46,416 7,094 3,763 3,895 7,195 2,479 14,311
Catalonia 1,246,866 650,611 146,869 107,684 595,398 262,253 199,523
Metropolità 120,899 47,963 10,579 15,979 38,150 8,564 81,816
Comarques Gironines 311,050 48,456 48,569 18,014 66,337 33,630 32,689
Camp de Tarragona 85,502 71,347 6,012 12,184 76,747 22,436 25,282
Terres de l'Ebre 69,247 80,621 12,736 19,614 93,077 43,889 11,356
Ponent 95,330 88,908 3,108 15,951 191,850 145,309 18,164
Comarques Centrals 292,003 88,659 35,978 15,903 105,160 2,091 21,959
Alt Pirineu i Aran 272,835 224,657 29,887 10,039 24,077 6,334 8,257
Barcelona 354,341 117,709 45,648 30,241 124,492 10,631 102,461
Girona 335,599 65,344 55,937 19,095 68,623 34,452 34,701
Lleida 402,177 315,590 26,536 26,550 232,459 150,845 25,723
Tarragona 154,749 151,968 18,748 31,798 169,824 66,325 36,638
Units: Hectares.
Source: Departament d'Agricultura, Alimentació i Acció Rural.
Note: (1) Urban land, urbanisable land and infrastructures.

Last update: December 16, 2014.

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 "..".