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Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Land uses. Counties, areas and provinces 2012
Forest area Cropland
Woods Scrubland Others No vegetation Dry farming Irrigated Urban and others (1)
Alt Camp 14,393 12,209 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 1,256 18,540 4,060 3,311
Alt Empordà 55,174 24,924 2,284 4,671 25,362 14,966 8,321
Alt Penedès 13,692 13,089 1,761 2,281 22,158 412 5,926
Alt Urgell 91,883 36,841 5,783 2,516 3,507 2,097 2,073
Alta Ribagorça 16,320 22,930 1,518 839 591 180 413
Anoia 29,483 15,271 4,496 2,244 28,891 418 5,947
Bages 65,988 25,131 4,100 4,250 21,958 804 7,729
Baix Camp 19,105 17,343 3,660 3,789 7,030 11,601 7,200
Baix Ebre 15,166 24,825 5,892 4,789 27,149 16,640 5,479
Baix Empordà 29,733 6,488 3,173 3,017 11,866 8,919 7,065
Baix Llobregat 11,430 10,495 1,881 4,262 1,844 1,733 16,936
Baix Penedès 7,202 8,002 106 1,436 7,608 462 4,764
Barcelonès 1,232 1,213 120 125 13 48 11,619
Berguedà 69,834 18,697 15,812 2,202 9,516 28 2,425
Cerdanya 24,516 16,922 7,464 1,058 2,174 820 2,052
Conca de Barberà 20,737 13,518 729 2,522 24,934 401 2,178
Garraf 3,850 6,675 399 979 1,703 176 4,678
Garrigues 13,487 15,555 112 1,379 34,425 11,868 2,963
Garrotxa 56,656 2,389 4,615 1,343 4,776 1,288 2,364
Gironès 33,488 2,094 101 1,938 10,147 4,485 5,346
Maresme 20,426 2,708 1,164 2,092 837 2,739 9,785
Montsià 9,243 13,336 1,941 5,391 21,367 19,149 3,362
Noguera 59,396 36,869 324 5,662 45,691 26,157 4,242
Osona 74,916 11,401 4,648 4,634 23,873 433 6,446
Pallars Jussà 55,264 52,011 3,181 3,670 15,279 2,785 2,220
Pallars Sobirà 63,095 62,115 6,415 1,733 971 192 1,369
Pla d'Urgell 32 203 879 1,339 595 25,554 1,968
Pla de l'Estany 13,943 1,262 538 910 7,309 1,048 1,309
Priorat 19,897 15,698 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 1,231 9,235 2,577 1,031
Ribera d'Ebre 22,457 28,284 5,674 3,107 13,800 7,272 2,006
Ripollès 65,917 4,366 21,209 909 1,780 14 1,595
Segarra 9,442 13,398 1,722 1,046 44,054 255 2,353
Segrià 9,047 16,731 369 7,542 31,791 67,117 7,124
Selva 69,558 6,677 1,410 3,217 5,627 4,210 8,943
Solsonès 58,259 18,774 3,174 1,555 16,778 46 1,595
Tarragonès 3,986 4,456 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 2,709 8,114 3,786 8,690
Terra Alta 25,894 17,816 23 1,042 26,776 1,200 1,460
Urgell 3,531 5,220 82 1,508 29,848 15,331 2,410
Val d'Aran 21,881 35,226 4,533 919 43 3 685
Vallès Occidental 23,336 7,514 52 3,075 4,606 527 19,191
Vallès Oriental 46,471 7,590 2,940 3,754 6,790 2,505 15,120
Catalonia 1,269,357 656,267 124,285 103,941 579,355 264,308 211,692
Metropolità 102,894 29,520 6,156 13,308 14,090 7,552 72,650
Comarques Gironines 324,469 48,201 33,332 16,004 66,866 34,930 34,943
Camp de Tarragona 78,119 63,224 4,390 11,507 67,854 22,427 22,411
Terres de l'Ebre 72,759 84,261 13,530 14,328 89,093 44,262 12,307
Ponent 94,934 87,976 3,489 18,477 186,403 146,282 21,060
Comarques Centrals 268,998 74,003 27,733 12,640 72,124 1,311 18,194
Alt Pirineu i Aran 272,957 226,046 28,894 10,736 22,565 6,076 8,812
Penedès 54,227 43,037 6,762 6,941 60,360 1,469 21,314
Barcelona 350,299 118,650 36,413 29,896 122,099 9,866 105,658
Girona 339,732 56,390 38,082 16,362 68,256 35,630 36,480
Lleida 421,246 325,740 31,764 30,412 224,445 151,662 30,072
Tarragona 158,080 155,487 18,026 27,271 164,555 67,151 39,482
Units: Hectares.
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Natural Environment.
Note: (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 "..".