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Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Land uses. Counties, areas and provinces 2011
Forest area Cropland
Woods Scrubland Others No vegetation Dry farming Irrigated Urban and others (1)
Alt Camp 14,393 12,211 10 1,283 18,469 4,089 3,315
Alt Empordà 55,122 24,919 2,323 4,685 25,504 15,095 8,054
Alt Penedès 13,692 13,089 1,761 2,264 22,234 353 5,926
Alt Urgell 91,940 36,841 5,767 2,495 3,504 2,088 2,065
Alta Ribagorça 16,331 22,930 1,519 830 590 180 410
Anoia 29,483 15,271 4,630 2,387 28,867 455 5,658
Bages 66,044 24,805 4,504 4,352 21,859 760 7,636
Baix Camp 19,105 17,310 3,911 3,738 6,926 11,613 7,128
Baix Ebre 15,166 24,232 6,048 4,526 27,447 16,927 5,595
Baix Empordà 29,732 6,488 3,132 2,953 11,986 8,861 7,108
Baix Llobregat 11,430 10,484 1,932 4,288 1,831 1,714 16,900
Baix Penedès 7,203 8,104 3 1,304 7,643 453 4,870
Barcelonès 1,232 1,144 216 133 13 47 11,584
Berguedà 69,679 18,697 15,953 2,242 9,524 28 2,389
Cerdanya 24,411 16,884 7,601 1,057 2,182 759 2,110
Conca de Barberà 20,797 13,510 323 2,898 24,939 385 2,167
Garraf 3,851 6,729 415 956 1,658 172 4,678
Garrigues 13,487 15,609 121 1,376 34,640 12,035 2,523
Garrotxa 56,670 2,389 4,348 1,276 5,022 1,312 2,413
Gironès 33,488 2,094 103 1,984 10,221 4,454 5,256
Maresme 20,428 2,708 1,329 2,099 861 2,739 9,586
Montsià 9,265 13,609 2,549 5,416 21,461 18,377 3,113
Noguera 59,396 36,899 311 5,555 45,866 26,133 4,180
Osona 74,728 11,400 4,932 4,649 23,914 432 6,297
Pallars Jussà 55,264 52,014 3,200 3,654 15,302 2,785 2,192
Pallars Sobirà 63,095 62,116 6,457 1,681 986 186 1,369
Pla d'Urgell 32 203 770 1,410 583 25,508 2,064
Pla de l'Estany 13,943 1,262 641 922 7,196 1,031 1,325
Priorat 19,909 15,730 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 1,143 9,806 1,998 1,083
Ribera d'Ebre 22,462 23,736 7,431 8,535 10,663 7,595 2,178
Ripollès 64,603 4,167 22,164 2,482 1,148 3 1,222
Segarra 9,442 13,400 1,733 938 44,310 253 2,195
Segrià 9,068 16,733 383 7,648 32,070 66,674 7,145
Selva 69,560 6,925 1,581 3,290 5,157 4,149 8,982
Solsonès 58,259 18,693 3,233 1,715 16,857 26 1,397
Tarragonès 3,985 4,456 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 2,719 8,033 3,829 8,719
Terra Alta 25,894 17,792 29 995 26,935 1,151 1,413
Urgell 3,548 5,221 79 1,314 30,145 15,261 2,364
Val d'Aran 21,881 35,231 4,534 907 50 3 685
Vallès Occidental 23,273 7,514 537 3,164 3,990 631 19,191
Vallès Oriental 46,468 7,590 3,040 3,728 6,896 2,471 14,978
Catalonia 1,267,757 651,137 129,553 110,993 577,290 263,013 209,461
Metropolità 102,831 29,440 7,055 13,412 13,591 7,603 72,239
Comarques Gironines 323,118 48,245 34,292 17,592 66,234 34,905 34,359
Camp de Tarragona 78,190 63,216 4,244 11,781 68,173 21,914 22,413
Terres de l'Ebre 72,786 79,369 16,057 19,473 86,506 44,049 12,300
Ponent 94,973 88,064 3,396 18,241 187,614 145,863 20,470
Comarques Centrals 268,710 73,595 28,622 12,958 72,155 1,246 17,719
Alt Pirineu i Aran 272,921 226,016 29,078 10,626 22,613 6,001 8,831
Penedès 54,229 43,193 6,809 6,912 60,403 1,432 21,132
Barcelona 350,033 118,297 38,213 30,293 121,545 9,850 104,650
Girona 338,192 56,397 39,235 17,920 67,648 35,554 35,987
Lleida 421,353 325,754 31,801 30,222 225,774 151,192 29,243
Tarragona 158,179 150,689 20,304 32,558 162,323 66,416 39,582
Units: Hectares.
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Natural Environment.
Notes:
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.
(1) Urban land, urbanisable land and infrastructures.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

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 "..".