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Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Land uses. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Forest area Cropland
Woods Scrubland Others No vegetation Dry farming Irrigated Urban and others (1)
2010 1,251,832 650,319 149,683 112,007 579,440 262,402 203,521
2009 1,251,872 647,450 151,258 110,817 586,014 260,595 201,198
2008 1,246,866 650,611 146,869 107,684 595,398 262,253 199,523
2007 1,231,006 648,144 158,887 111,593 597,537 261,207 200,836
2006 1,052,985 507,632 419,969 121,496 644,451 263,141 200,017
2005 995,121 495,612 454,472 149,182 655,961 261,071 196,926
Units: Hectares.
Source:
2005: Departament d'Agricultura, Alimentació i Acció Rural. Unitat d'Estadística i Informació Agrària, a partir de l'Enquesta sobre superfícies ocupades pels conreus agrícoles.
2006-2008: Departament d'Agricultura, Alimentació i Acció Rural.
2009-2010: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Natural Environment.
Notes:
(1) Urban land, urbanisable land and infrastructures.
From 2007 the data is not strictly compatible with that of previous years due to the introduction of improved methodologies.

Last update: December 16, 2014.

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 "..".