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Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Land uses. Counties, areas and provinces 2013
Forest area Cropland
Woods Scrubland Others No vegetation Dry farming Irrigated Urban and others (1)
Alt Camp 15,735 10,591 1,265 1,211 17,731 3,960 3,277
Alt Empordà 40,134 37,898 5,221 4,536 24,812 14,538 8,565
Alt Penedès 17,764 8,923 2,060 2,050 21,955 482 6,086
Alt Urgell 81,256 34,973 18,098 2,597 3,609 2,045 2,123
Alta Ribagorça 15,579 8,195 16,959 872 584 188 413
Anoia 33,252 12,875 3,342 2,119 28,837 394 5,931
Bages 69,627 21,178 3,804 4,019 22,932 824 7,577
Baix Camp 15,604 21,721 2,006 3,382 8,242 11,670 7,104
Baix Ebre 17,853 24,943 3,179 4,920 26,956 16,631 5,459
Baix Empordà 30,503 5,758 3,023 2,983 12,123 8,911 6,959
Baix Llobregat 12,495 10,003 2,370 2,887 1,939 1,715 17,172
Baix Penedès 8,688 6,751 528 1,427 6,959 475 4,752
Barcelonès 1,187 1,183 192 103 13 48 11,643
Berguedà 71,028 19,637 13,673 2,163 9,558 28 2,425
Cerdanya 24,981 8,038 15,490 1,064 2,418 936 2,080
Conca de Barberà 19,510 14,935 1,600 1,298 24,974 419 2,285
Garraf 5,628 5,342 177 929 1,654 154 4,577
Garrigues 14,788 13,870 966 1,728 33,320 12,040 3,079
Garrotxa 28,862 29,496 3,758 1,302 6,206 1,485 2,322
Gironès 25,141 10,616 1,100 1,873 9,249 4,236 5,385
Maresme 15,845 7,254 1,359 1,886 839 2,740 9,828
Montsià 6,330 16,978 1,265 5,209 21,320 19,317 3,371
Noguera 29,743 62,994 4,079 6,061 43,638 27,525 4,301
Osona 63,194 19,919 7,462 4,647 24,205 456 6,468
Pallars Jussà 47,341 48,977 13,907 3,721 15,405 2,785 2,274
Pallars Sobirà 59,827 43,021 28,711 1,772 1,000 182 1,377
Pla d'Urgell 45 350 1,095 1,508 538 25,047 1,987
Pla de l'Estany 10,131 4,843 640 885 7,444 1,072 1,307
Priorat 17,809 19,690 1,222 7,439 2,475 1,035
Ribera d'Ebre 27,701 24,012 5,270 3,019 13,268 7,299 2,031
Ripollès 64,335 7,403 19,703 909 1,826 19 1,595
Segarra 10,794 10,923 2,531 1,196 44,070 394 2,362
Segrià 7,859 15,643 4,354 7,988 28,767 67,514 7,594
Selva 58,752 17,010 1,481 3,166 5,949 4,301 8,984
Solsonès 58,566 14,611 6,843 1,598 16,919 35 1,608
Tarragonès 5,276 3,304 655 2,304 7,981 3,829 8,392
Terra Alta 29,033 14,500 852 1,075 25,925 1,320 1,506
Urgell 3,104 4,856 873 1,689 29,603 15,331 2,474
Val d'Aran 23,650 17,899 20,084 923 44 3 688
Vallès Occidental 18,501 12,811 1,393 2,650 4,095 551 18,299
Vallès Oriental 30,350 24,482 3,212 3,253 6,530 2,491 14,853
Catalonia 1,137,800 698,403 224,577 100,144 570,876 265,860 211,545
Metropolità 78,378 55,734 8,525 10,779 13,416 7,544 71,795
Comarques Gironines 257,856 113,022 34,926 15,654 67,609 34,562 35,116
Camp de Tarragona 73,934 70,241 5,527 9,417 66,367 22,352 22,093
Terres de l'Ebre 80,917 80,433 10,565 14,224 87,468 44,566 12,367
Ponent 66,333 108,636 13,898 20,170 179,936 147,850 21,796
Comarques Centrals 262,416 75,344 31,782 12,427 73,614 1,342 18,078
Alt Pirineu i Aran 252,635 161,102 113,248 10,948 23,061 6,139 8,954
Penedès 65,332 33,890 6,107 6,525 59,406 1,504 21,346
Barcelona 330,456 141,089 37,508 26,702 122,474 9,937 104,714
Girona 271,403 118,390 43,877 16,013 69,195 35,377 36,678
Lleida 372,401 281,499 126,572 32,361 218,412 153,153 30,941
Tarragona 163,539 157,424 16,620 25,068 160,794 67,393 39,212
Units: Hectares.
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Natural Environment.
Note: (1) Urban land, urbanisable land and infrastructures.

Last update: January 15, 2015.

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 "..".