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Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2015
Forest area Cropland
Woods Scrubland Others No vegetation Dry farming Irrigated Urban and others (1)
Alt Camp 15,736 10,590 1,177 1,450 17,662 3,683 3,472
Alt Empordà 37,773 42,997 3,190 4,715 23,959 14,333 8,736
Alt Penedès 17,971 8,713 1,960 2,052 21,996 505 6,123
Alt Urgell 81,258 35,007 17,499 2,664 4,358 1,798 2,116
Alta Ribagorça 15,579 7,688 17,323 1,017 579 194 410
Anoia 34,390 12,592 2,865 2,320 28,301 262 6,020
Aran 23,652 17,888 20,089 936 44 1 680
Bages 55,373 19,404 2,721 3,687 20,502 758 6,775
Baix Camp 15,697 21,942 1,967 3,533 7,851 11,539 7,201
Baix Ebre 17,817 24,814 2,895 5,868 26,546 16,475 5,525
Baix Empordà 30,221 6,291 2,872 2,952 11,945 8,759 7,220
Baix Llobregat 12,581 10,101 643 2,670 2,729 1,715 18,141
Baix Penedès 8,686 6,786 528 1,397 6,882 513 4,788
Barcelonès 1,188 1,207 81 105 12 41 11,736
Berguedà 71,586 18,906 13,185 2,200 10,154 51 2,430
Cerdanya 25,043 8,048 15,816 1,073 2,127 820 2,079
Conca de Barberà 19,116 15,216 1,465 1,421 25,097 413 2,292
Garraf 5,619 5,414 130 929 1,600 153 4,615
Garrigues 14,801 14,953 1,239 1,729 31,371 12,562 3,135
Garrotxa 28,641 29,489 4,156 1,293 6,175 1,335 2,341
Gironès 25,154 10,576 1,068 1,972 9,142 4,152 5,536
Maresme 15,859 8,002 1,178 1,864 655 2,396 9,796
Moianès 20,380 5,917 1,318 502 4,200 55 1,408
Montsià 6,201 15,818 1,241 7,687 20,408 19,018 3,417
Noguera 27,291 65,252 4,180 5,949 43,315 27,993 4,360
Osona 61,310 19,662 7,848 4,758 24,159 585 6,519
Pallars Jussà 45,150 48,755 15,932 4,030 15,525 2,784 2,234
Pallars Sobirà 59,088 44,137 28,272 1,810 1,039 179 1,365
Pla d'Urgell 45 361 1,129 1,454 538 25,019 2,022
Pla de l'Estany 10,011 4,713 827 927 7,446 1,088 1,308
Priorat 15,545 21,963 0 1,242 7,462 2,393 1,065
Ribera d'Ebre 27,717 24,049 4,746 2,896 13,849 7,243 2,100
Ripollès 59,084 11,371 21,071 842 1,769 0 1,653
Segarra 10,710 10,648 2,427 1,182 44,535 385 2,383
Segrià 7,865 16,260 4,277 7,424 27,260 68,285 8,349
Selva 58,647 16,641 1,169 3,363 6,501 4,356 8,965
Solsonès 58,575 14,611 5,923 1,675 17,727 53 1,616
Tarragonès 5,398 3,390 384 2,348 7,652 3,814 8,754
Terra Alta 26,999 16,393 1,002 1,177 25,352 1,740 1,547
Urgell 3,103 4,867 879 1,594 29,402 15,549 2,536
Vallès Occidental 18,368 13,143 257 2,614 5,219 288 18,411
Vallès Oriental 23,735 21,698 2,356 3,140 5,872 2,549 14,290
Catalonia 1,118,963 716,273 219,285 104,461 568,917 265,834 215,469
Metropolità 71,731 54,151 4,515 10,393 14,487 6,989 72,374
Comarques Gironines 249,531 122,078 34,353 16,064 66,937 34,023 35,759
Camp de Tarragona 71,492 73,101 4,993 9,994 65,724 21,842 22,784
Terres de l'Ebre 78,734 81,074 9,884 17,628 86,155 44,476 12,589
Ponent 63,815 112,341 14,131 19,332 176,421 149,793 22,785
Comarques Centrals 272,262 80,906 32,114 13,418 86,951 1,502 19,520
Alt Pirineu i Aran 249,770 161,523 114,931 11,530 23,672 5,776 8,884
Penedès 61,628 31,099 4,364 6,102 48,570 1,433 20,774
Barcelona 329,884 142,271 33,009 26,858 125,347 9,413 106,099
Girona 263,203 127,447 43,528 16,410 68,276 34,727 37,342
Lleida 366,964 285,594 127,343 32,174 216,533 154,863 31,867
Tarragona 158,912 160,961 15,405 29,019 158,761 66,831 40,161
Units: Hectares.
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.
Note: (1) Urban land, urbanisable land and infrastructures.

Last update: August 25, 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 "..".