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Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2016
Forest area Cropland
Woods Scrubland Others No vegetation Dry farming Irrigated Urban and others (1)
Alt Camp 15,736 10,592 1,614 1,375 17,417 3,682 3,355
Alt Empordà 37,781 43,043 3,326 4,663 23,693 14,360 8,837
Alt Penedès 17,971 8,719 2,033 1,988 21,918 567 6,124
Alt Urgell 81,258 35,007 17,229 2,845 4,387 1,854 2,120
Alta Ribagorça 15,579 7,687 17,331 1,019 580 194 400
Anoia 34,390 12,588 2,855 2,328 28,285 264 6,040
Aran 23,652 17,887 20,085 935 45 0 686
Bages 55,373 19,418 2,528 3,663 20,728 733 6,777
Baix Camp 15,697 21,941 1,912 3,679 7,735 11,543 7,223
Baix Ebre 17,817 24,844 3,180 5,924 25,928 16,703 5,544
Baix Empordà 30,054 6,141 2,647 2,693 12,076 8,924 7,725
Baix Llobregat 12,581 10,106 659 2,646 2,440 1,971 18,177
Baix Penedès 8,686 6,778 502 1,443 6,832 538 4,801
Barcelonès 1,188 1,185 81 127 12 41 11,736
Berguedà 71,586 18,848 13,260 2,038 10,260 59 2,461
Cerdanya 25,043 8,053 15,896 1,054 2,076 794 2,090
Conca de Barberà 19,116 15,215 1,455 1,437 25,115 399 2,283
Garraf 5,619 5,425 133 936 1,597 135 4,615
Garrigues 15,226 14,787 1,254 1,715 30,210 13,407 3,191
Garrotxa 28,631 29,489 4,241 1,280 6,060 1,398 2,331
Gironès 25,144 10,492 1,041 1,953 9,168 4,208 5,594
Maresme 15,863 7,991 1,176 1,869 680 2,367 9,804
Moianès 20,380 5,890 1,248 530 4,301 51 1,380
Montsià 6,201 15,777 1,248 7,380 20,244 19,433 3,507
Noguera 27,625 65,388 4,074 5,927 42,749 28,144 4,433
Osona 61,300 19,570 7,848 4,740 24,197 640 6,546
Pallars Jussà 45,150 48,653 15,924 4,046 15,618 2,787 2,232
Pallars Sobirà 59,088 44,138 28,269 1,810 1,039 183 1,363
Pla d'Urgell 45 355 1,113 1,442 570 25,026 2,017
Pla de l'Estany 10,011 4,715 770 946 7,435 1,113 1,330
Priorat 15,545 21,953 39 1,241 7,443 2,383 1,066
Ribera d'Ebre 27,717 24,054 4,595 2,990 13,388 7,734 2,122
Ripollès 59,074 11,394 21,097 842 1,740 1 1,642
Segarra 10,702 10,626 2,042 1,195 44,929 394 2,382
Segrià 7,865 16,260 4,277 7,413 25,931 69,608 8,366
Selva 58,641 16,513 1,133 3,367 6,587 4,350 9,051
Solsonès 58,575 14,501 5,589 1,662 18,179 53 1,621
Tarragonès 5,398 3,867 1,623 2,338 6,757 3,770 7,987
Terra Alta 26,999 16,389 992 1,175 24,904 2,167 1,584
Urgell 3,103 4,867 879 1,660 29,595 15,266 2,560
Vallès Occidental 18,341 12,948 284 2,633 5,140 427 18,527
Vallès Oriental 23,735 21,683 2,245 3,168 5,958 2,542 14,309
Catalonia 1,119,486 715,777 219,727 104,115 563,946 270,213 215,939
Metropolità 71,708 53,913 4,445 10,443 14,230 7,348 72,553
Comarques Gironines 249,336 121,787 34,255 15,744 66,759 34,354 36,510
Camp de Tarragona 71,492 73,568 6,643 10,070 64,467 21,777 21,914
Terres de l'Ebre 78,734 81,064 10,015 17,469 84,464 46,037 12,757
Ponent 64,566 112,283 13,639 19,352 173,984 151,845 22,949
Comarques Centrals 272,252 80,633 31,595 13,226 87,874 1,536 19,557
Alt Pirineu i Aran 249,770 161,425 114,734 11,709 23,745 5,812 8,891
Penedès 61,628 31,104 4,401 6,102 48,423 1,504 20,808
Barcelona 329,876 141,879 32,828 26,685 125,435 9,852 106,326
Girona 262,983 127,165 43,451 16,070 68,115 35,040 38,109
Lleida 367,715 285,323 126,288 32,378 214,633 156,969 32,032
Tarragona 158,912 161,410 17,160 28,982 155,763 68,351 39,472
Units: Hectares.
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.
Note: (1) Urban land, urbanisable land and infrastructures.

Last update: August 24, 2017.

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 "..".