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Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2014
Forest area Cropland
Woods Scrubland Others No vegetation Dry farming Irrigated Urban and others (1)
Alt Camp 15,736 10,585 1,250 1,260 17,683 3,905 3,351
Alt Empordà 37,762 42,284 3,358 4,666 24,349 14,538 8,746
Alt Penedès 17,971 8,733 1,972 2,071 21,949 501 6,123
Alt Urgell 81,258 35,006 17,488 2,584 4,490 1,752 2,122
Alta Ribagorça 15,579 8,195 16,831 1,001 579 194 411
Anoia 34,390 12,262 3,086 2,099 28,554 384 5,975
Aran 23,650 17,888 20,085 936 44 1 686
Bages 55,452 19,340 3,162 3,827 19,915 751 6,773
Baix Camp 15,697 21,832 1,967 3,492 7,967 11,664 7,111
Baix Ebre 17,817 24,932 3,182 5,027 26,712 16,744 5,526
Baix Empordà 30,143 6,236 2,484 2,844 12,303 9,069 7,181
Baix Llobregat 12,581 10,119 500 2,915 2,856 1,675 17,934
Baix Penedès 8,686 6,791 529 1,281 7,005 499 4,789
Barcelonès 1,188 1,206 169 103 13 46 11,645
Berguedà 71,585 18,974 13,276 2,165 10,034 49 2,429
Cerdanya 25,043 8,048 15,015 1,063 2,525 1,235 2,077
Conca de Barberà 19,116 15,208 1,464 1,437 25,078 422 2,295
Garraf 5,621 5,383 164 929 1,598 150 4,615
Garrigues 14,801 14,344 1,151 1,726 32,127 12,497 3,144
Garrotxa 28,628 29,337 3,717 1,264 6,622 1,500 2,362
Gironès 25,126 10,609 722 1,897 9,515 4,186 5,545
Maresme 15,859 7,889 1,221 1,864 656 2,471 9,790
Moianès 20,380 5,917 1,318 502 4,200 55 1,408
Montsià 6,201 15,535 1,336 7,384 20,527 19,401 3,406
Noguera 27,391 65,773 4,189 5,985 42,932 27,725 4,345
Osona 61,544 19,654 7,641 4,778 24,207 576 6,441
Pallars Jussà 46,995 48,818 14,037 4,037 15,499 2,784 2,240
Pallars Sobirà 59,088 43,917 28,495 1,802 1,036 183 1,369
Pla d'Urgell 45 355 1,114 1,470 534 25,050 2,000
Pla de l'Estany 10,009 4,711 683 918 7,578 1,117 1,304
Priorat 15,545 21,969 0 1,251 7,348 2,494 1,063
Ribera d'Ebre 27,717 24,054 5,170 2,851 13,548 7,216 2,044
Ripollès 59,068 11,349 20,994 852 1,865 15 1,647
Segarra 10,720 10,681 2,790 1,174 44,180 351 2,374
Segrià 7,865 16,260 4,277 7,463 27,525 67,961 8,369
Selva 58,907 16,553 1,213 3,359 6,304 4,340 8,966
Solsonès 58,575 14,601 5,768 1,672 17,894 58 1,612
Tarragonès 5,398 3,492 425 2,412 7,695 3,784 8,534
Terra Alta 26,999 16,409 909 1,181 25,720 1,450 1,542
Urgell 3,103 4,862 875 1,630 29,412 15,549 2,499
Vallès Occidental 18,368 13,081 689 2,736 4,473 519 18,434
Vallès Oriental 23,780 21,580 2,592 3,109 5,779 2,419 14,381
Catalonia 1,121,387 714,772 217,308 103,017 570,830 267,280 214,608
Metropolità 71,776 53,875 5,171 10,727 13,777 7,130 72,184
Comarques Gironines 249,643 121,079 33,171 15,800 68,536 34,765 35,751
Camp de Tarragona 71,492 73,086 5,106 9,852 65,771 22,269 22,354
Terres de l'Ebre 78,734 80,930 10,597 16,443 86,507 44,811 12,518
Ponent 63,925 112,275 14,396 19,448 176,710 149,133 22,731
Comarques Centrals 272,574 80,892 32,284 13,540 86,459 1,489 19,435
Alt Pirineu i Aran 251,613 161,872 111,951 11,423 24,173 6,149 8,905
Penedès 61,630 30,763 4,632 5,784 48,897 1,534 20,730
Barcelona 330,268 141,649 34,255 27,117 124,165 9,644 105,783
Girona 263,290 126,442 41,678 16,137 70,178 35,877 37,331
Lleida 368,917 285,874 125,143 32,187 217,204 154,180 31,833
Tarragona 158,912 160,807 16,232 27,576 159,283 67,579 39,661
Units: Hectares.
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.
Note: (1) Urban land, urbanisable land and infrastructures.

Last update: April 20, 2016.

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 "..".