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Plan for spaces of natural interest (PEIN). Counties and Aran, and areas

Plan for spaces of natural interest (PEIN). Counties and Aran, and areas 2015
Surface area PEIN (1) Total surface area % of area PEIN land
Alt Camp 15,080 53,798 28.0
Alt Empordà 49,822 135,786 36.7
Alt Penedès 12,489 59,275 21.1
Alt Urgell 49,018 144,751 33.9
Alta Ribagorça 20,922 42,687 49.0
Anoia 13,134 86,634 15.2
Aran 37,463 63,360 59.1
Bages 14,691 109,255 13.4
Baix Camp 21,767 69,702 31.2
Baix Ebre 38,198 100,201 38.1
Baix Empordà 26,544 70,194 37.8
Baix Llobregat 14,280 48,775 29.3
Baix Penedès 9,176 29,631 31.0
Barcelonès 2,091 14,616 14.3
Berguedà 40,082 118,525 33.8
Cerdanya 20,578 54,669 37.6
Conca de Barberà 18,609 65,013 28.6
Garraf 8,372 18,518 45.2
Garrigues 7,005 79,771 8.8
Garrotxa 39,648 73,373 54.0
Gironès 18,171 57,515 31.6
Maresme 11,488 39,844 28.8
Moianès 12,765 33,749 37.8
Montsià 29,318 73,407 39.9
Noguera 57,265 178,402 32.1
Osona 28,701 124,671 23.0
Pallars Jussà 46,220 134,308 34.4
Pallars Sobirà 95,672 137,794 69.4
Pla d'Urgell 470 30,522 1.5
Pla de l'Estany 1,657 26,272 6.3
Priorat 25,481 49,859 51.1
Ribera d'Ebre 23,455 82,731 28.4
Ripollès 35,803 95,660 37.4
Segarra 23,083 72,281 31.9
Segrià 16,002 139,669 11.5
Selva 23,049 99,522 23.2
Solsonès 25,952 100,071 25.9
Tarragonès 2,584 31,986 8.1
Terra Alta 23,566 74,305 31.7
Urgell 16,937 57,955 29.2
Vallès Occidental 15,071 58,310 25.8
Vallès Oriental 28,365 73,495 38.6
Zona marítima 85,629 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Catalonia 1,020,047 3,210,860 31.8
Metropolità 75,385 235,039 32.1
Comarques Gironines 194,789 558,323 34.9
Camp de Tarragona 83,521 270,358 30.9
Terres de l'Ebre 114,661 330,643 34.7
Ponent 120,762 558,599 21.6
Comarques Centrals 118,560 572,905 20.7
Alt Pirineu i Aran 270,062 577,569 46.8
Penedès 42,705 107,424 39.8
Units: Hectares.
Source: Ministry of Territory and Sustainability.
Notes:
(1) Calculated based on the 2015 version (it contains the layout of the coastline and the border areas with France and Aragon of 2014) and the current version of the county base.
The new county of El Moianès was created on 1 May 2015 (Law 4/2015, of 23 April, on the creation of the county of El Moianès) from the aggregation of five municipalities of the county of El Bages, one from the county of Osona and four from the county of El Vallès Oriental.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: November 14, 2016.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Natural place of national interest
Natural space or element of medium or small size with unique characteristics of scientific, scenic or educational interest, as declared by a law to guarantee its protection. In these places activities are limited to traditional agricultural, livestock and forestry activities that are compatible with the specific objectives of protecting the space and other activities that are appropriate for such management.
Natural park
Spaces with qualified natural values. The reason for protecting them is for their conservation to be compatible with the organised exploitation of resources and its inhabitants' activities. The declaration is made by decree.

Methodological aspects

All specially protected natural spaces are included in the Plan for spaces of natural interest. Date on 31, December.

The Plan for spaces of natural interest (PEIN - Pla d'Espais d'Interès Natural) delimits and stablishes the required guidelines for the basic protection of the natural spaces which conservation must be guaranteed according to their scientific, ecological, scenic, cultural, social, educational and recreational values.

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 "..".