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Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2017
Forest area Cropland
Woods Scrubland Others No vegetation Dry farming Irrigated Urban and others (1)
Alt Camp 15,744 10,592 1,612 1,602 17,151 3,532 3,538
Alt Empordà 37,967 43,112 3,268 4,649 24,044 13,602 9,061
Alt Penedès 17,971 8,722 2,023 1,910 22,000 567 6,127
Alt Urgell 81,258 35,007 17,371 2,873 4,302 1,770 2,119
Alta Ribagorça 15,579 7,753 17,129 1,153 583 197 396
Anoia 34,390 12,507 3,048 2,173 28,306 256 6,070
Aran 23,650 17,883 20,098 927 44 0 688
Bages 55,373 19,406 2,629 3,633 20,785 701 6,693
Baix Camp 15,697 22,015 1,987 3,679 7,523 11,543 7,286
Baix Ebre 17,797 24,958 3,469 6,027 25,591 16,534 5,564
Baix Empordà 30,212 5,932 2,761 2,703 12,034 8,854 7,764
Baix Llobregat 12,563 10,029 763 2,690 2,311 2,043 18,181
Baix Penedès 8,682 6,798 459 1,534 6,750 547 4,810
Barcelonès 1,173 1,170 81 205 13 41 11,687
Berguedà 71,554 18,803 13,222 2,001 10,409 51 2,472
Cerdanya 25,043 8,048 15,941 1,062 2,037 779 2,096
Conca de Barberà 19,127 15,430 1,204 1,328 25,225 403 2,303
Garraf 5,619 5,413 129 956 1,623 100 4,620
Garrigues 14,973 14,851 1,252 2,336 29,565 13,595 3,218
Garrotxa 28,657 29,539 4,535 1,272 5,661 1,393 2,373
Gironès 25,171 10,518 1,051 1,982 9,063 4,215 5,600
Maresme 15,861 7,994 1,183 1,862 670 2,370 9,810
Moianès 20,380 5,903 1,179 541 4,344 52 1,381
Montsià 6,201 15,742 1,204 7,872 20,373 18,934 3,464
Noguera 27,291 64,800 4,030 6,003 43,582 28,151 4,483
Osona 61,288 19,512 7,944 4,714 24,232 594 6,557
Pallars Jussà 45,150 48,653 16,266 4,031 15,346 2,734 2,230
Pallars Sobirà 59,088 44,127 28,270 1,802 1,040 183 1,380
Pla d'Urgell 45 355 595 1,466 1,037 25,018 2,052
Pla de l'Estany 10,011 4,715 808 899 7,388 1,105 1,394
Priorat 15,545 21,948 39 1,279 7,409 2,376 1,074
Ribera d'Ebre 27,717 24,054 4,644 2,945 13,166 7,867 2,207
Ripollès 59,074 11,388 21,105 847 1,742 0 1,634
Segarra 10,710 10,631 2,015 1,207 44,922 394 2,391
Segrià 7,865 16,260 4,269 7,472 25,356 69,852 8,646
Selva 58,600 16,438 1,076 3,271 6,690 4,348 9,219
Solsonès 58,575 14,611 5,631 1,691 18,014 44 1,614
Tarragonès 5,398 3,916 1,552 2,350 6,691 3,503 8,330
Terra Alta 26,999 16,364 1,040 1,205 24,638 2,363 1,601
Urgell 3,103 4,866 892 1,632 29,414 15,380 2,643
Vallès Occidental 18,325 12,962 218 2,690 5,234 180 18,691
Vallès Oriental 23,735 21,627 2,269 3,191 6,011 2,491 14,316
Catalonia 1,119,161 715,352 220,261 105,665 562,319 268,662 217,783
Metropolità 71,657 53,782 4,514 10,638 14,239 7,125 72,685
Comarques Gironines 249,692 121,642 34,604 15,623 66,622 33,517 37,045
Camp de Tarragona 71,511 73,901 6,394 10,238 63,999 21,357 22,531
Terres de l'Ebre 78,714 81,118 10,357 18,049 83,768 45,698 12,836
Ponent 63,987 111,763 13,053 20,116 173,876 152,390 23,433
Comarques Centrals 272,208 80,621 31,848 13,072 87,993 1,442 19,489
Alt Pirineu i Aran 249,768 161,471 115,075 11,848 23,352 5,663 8,909
Penedès 61,624 31,054 4,416 6,081 48,470 1,470 20,855
Barcelona 329,778 141,552 33,166 26,586 125,858 9,502 106,439
Girona 263,342 127,019 43,838 15,953 67,945 34,193 38,643
Lleida 367,134 284,964 126,047 33,305 213,999 157,365 32,524
Tarragona 158,907 161,817 17,210 29,821 154,517 67,602 40,176
Units: Hectares.
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.
Note: (1) Urban land, urbanisable land and infrastructures.

Last update: September 7, 2018.

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 "..".