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Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2018
Forest area Cropland
Woods Scrubland Others No vegetation Dry farming Irrigated Urban and others (1)
Alt Camp 15,713 10,592 1,583 1,761 17,003 3,571 3,577
Alt Empordà 39,055 42,147 3,219 4,733 24,030 13,577 8,993
Alt Penedès 17,935 8,746 1,819 2,010 22,053 579 6,127
Alt Urgell 81,220 35,009 17,477 2,916 4,183 1,814 2,127
Alta Ribagorça 15,578 7,655 17,125 1,155 584 203 386
Anoia 34,374 13,362 2,059 2,243 28,260 235 6,098
Aran 23,709 17,835 20,150 929 49 0 688
Bages 55,416 19,455 2,328 3,609 20,987 700 6,731
Baix Camp 15,693 22,546 1,904 3,802 6,667 11,812 7,291
Baix Ebre 17,798 25,024 3,355 6,155 25,553 16,808 5,574
Baix Empordà 30,145 5,802 2,574 2,693 12,252 8,907 7,796
Baix Llobregat 12,542 9,998 957 2,667 2,277 1,955 18,203
Baix Penedès 8,686 6,819 535 1,585 6,725 483 4,812
Barcelonès 1,168 1,388 49 199 13 39 11,719
Berguedà 71,466 18,193 12,993 1,998 11,343 60 2,472
Cerdanya 25,043 8,048 15,049 1,067 2,404 963 2,095
Conca de Barberà 19,115 15,323 1,282 1,371 25,187 407 2,332
Garraf 5,596 5,441 147 1,004 1,626 77 4,620
Garrigues 14,957 14,661 1,239 2,560 29,139 13,947 3,267
Garrotxa 28,683 29,574 4,339 1,246 5,736 1,506 2,378
Gironès 25,189 10,268 1,130 1,974 9,169 4,206 5,624
Maresme 15,854 7,970 1,267 1,895 728 2,311 9,828
Moianès 20,412 5,747 1,198 541 4,450 61 1,382
Montsià 6,201 15,625 1,179 7,885 20,182 19,000 3,470
Noguera 27,256 64,730 4,003 6,195 43,123 28,610 4,490
Osona 60,894 19,123 7,881 4,711 24,714 627 6,569
Pallars Jussà 45,098 48,520 16,450 4,061 15,295 2,650 2,235
Pallars Sobirà 61,622 43,834 28,027 1,797 980 143 1,389
Pla d'Urgell 45 355 595 1,511 536 25,420 2,052
Pla de l'Estany 10,011 4,713 648 902 7,502 1,106 1,396
Priorat 15,666 22,001 39 1,349 7,350 2,372 1,084
Ribera d'Ebre 27,717 24,054 4,533 3,128 13,119 8,033 2,148
Ripollès 59,340 11,462 21,069 851 1,329 2 1,609
Segarra 10,709 10,526 1,020 1,267 45,935 409 2,406
Segrià 7,865 16,260 4,277 8,010 25,238 69,316 8,700
Selva 58,609 16,259 1,135 3,270 6,634 4,369 9,228
Solsonès 58,502 14,130 4,804 1,705 19,311 56 1,616
Tarragonès 5,357 3,916 1,545 2,378 6,662 3,636 8,442
Terra Alta 26,994 16,274 1,009 1,573 24,261 2,581 1,612
Urgell 3,093 4,615 1,427 1,739 28,965 15,483 2,644
Vallès Occidental 18,330 12,920 266 2,655 5,084 250 18,808
Vallès Oriental 23,735 21,605 2,034 3,171 6,118 2,481 14,352
Catalonia 1,122,391 712,525 215,719 108,271 562,756 270,765 218,370
Metropolità 71,629 53,881 4,573 10,587 14,220 7,036 72,910
Comarques Gironines 251,032 120,225 34,114 15,669 66,652 33,673 37,024
Camp de Tarragona 71,544 74,378 6,353 10,661 62,869 21,798 22,726
Terres de l'Ebre 78,710 80,977 10,076 18,741 83,115 46,422 12,804
Ponent 63,925 111,147 12,561 21,282 172,936 153,185 23,559
Comarques Centrals 271,727 79,018 29,796 13,067 91,014 1,504 19,545
Alt Pirineu i Aran 252,270 160,901 114,278 11,925 23,495 5,773 8,920
Penedès 61,554 31,998 3,968 6,339 48,455 1,374 20,882
Barcelona 329,260 141,367 31,521 26,723 127,626 9,395 106,744
Girona 264,690 125,653 42,947 16,005 68,047 34,539 38,619
Lleida 369,501 283,331 124,287 34,556 214,374 158,128 32,665
Tarragona 158,940 162,174 16,964 30,987 152,709 68,703 40,342
Units: Hectares.
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.
Notes:
(1) Urban land, urbanisable land and infrastructures.
In 2018 the information on municipal surfaces was updated with the data provided by the ICGC (Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia) published by Idescat.

Last update: August 8, 2019.

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 "..".