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Land uses. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Land uses. Counties, areas and provinces 2010
Forest area Cropland
Woods Scrubland Others No vegetation Dry farming Irrigated Urban and others (1)
Alt Camp 14,429 12,211 0 1,231 18,518 4,067 3,315
Alt Empordà 55,096 25,076 2,492 4,671 25,230 15,088 8,050
Alt Penedès 13,726 13,076 1,804 2,229 22,302 286 5,897
Alt Urgell 91,930 36,977 5,612 2,449 3,622 2,202 1,909
Alta Ribagorça 16,382 22,850 1,545 836 590 180 407
Anoia 29,504 14,419 5,325 2,484 28,935 446 5,638
Bages 65,912 24,940 4,414 4,761 21,764 745 7,424
Baix Camp 19,122 17,274 5,758 3,568 6,355 11,208 6,444
Baix Ebre 16,035 23,045 6,225 5,297 27,543 16,682 5,113
Baix Empordà 29,773 6,493 2,886 4,086 12,014 8,870 6,139
Baix Llobregat 11,490 10,499 1,909 4,218 1,828 1,745 16,891
Baix Penedès 7,175 8,104 0 1,580 7,860 453 4,409
Barcelonès 1,233 1,144 217 142 13 48 11,574
Berguedà 63,278 20,629 20,410 2,364 9,513 25 2,291
Cerdanya 24,263 16,878 7,674 1,015 2,273 768 2,136
Conca de Barberà 20,722 13,510 471 2,948 24,797 383 2,188
Garraf 3,855 6,729 481 960 1,604 173 4,658
Garrigues 13,450 15,542 2 1,198 34,974 12,177 2,448
Garrotxa 56,454 2,384 4,496 1,266 5,144 1,304 2,383
Gironès 33,430 2,100 85 1,827 10,480 4,369 5,309
Maresme 20,466 2,442 1,654 2,178 832 2,765 9,412
Montsià 9,282 13,237 2,549 5,786 21,605 18,282 3,049
Noguera 59,575 37,193 345 5,234 46,035 26,296 3,662
Osona 74,766 11,563 4,967 4,645 23,931 523 5,955
Pallars Jussà 55,478 50,913 4,297 3,288 15,664 2,807 1,963
Pallars Sobirà 63,031 62,120 6,440 1,663 1,049 187 1,401
Pla d'Urgell 33 216 761 1,299 629 25,741 1,892
Pla de l'Estany 13,893 1,272 692 836 7,267 1,039 1,321
Priorat 19,918 15,730 0 1,124 9,851 1,989 1,057
Ribera d'Ebre 22,293 23,736 7,411 8,683 10,953 7,380 2,144
Ripollès 53,534 4,308 32,736 2,652 1,141 6 1,413
Segarra 9,469 13,441 1,771 853 44,396 238 2,103
Segrià 9,054 17,072 489 7,121 32,626 66,466 6,892
Selva 70,039 6,553 1,726 3,269 5,060 4,155 8,840
Solsonès 58,327 18,907 3,587 1,746 16,523 29 1,062
Tarragonès 4,061 4,579 0 2,507 8,339 3,705 8,550
Terra Alta 25,874 17,796 23 1,001 27,036 1,083 1,397
Urgell 3,571 5,182 87 1,260 30,266 15,352 2,212
Val d'Aran 21,877 35,232 4,544 903 51 2 682
Vallès Occidental 23,337 7,623 549 3,080 3,970 607 19,134
Vallès Oriental 46,699 7,325 3,249 3,750 6,858 2,533 14,757
Catalonia 1,251,832 650,319 149,683 112,007 579,440 262,402 203,521
Metropolità 120,805 48,838 9,863 16,557 37,409 8,156 82,323
Comarques Gironines 312,218 48,186 45,113 18,607 66,336 34,830 33,455
Camp de Tarragona 85,426 71,408 6,229 12,958 75,719 21,806 25,963
Terres de l'Ebre 73,484 77,814 16,208 20,766 87,137 43,427 11,703
Ponent 95,152 88,646 3,456 16,964 188,925 146,269 19,209
Comarques Centrals 291,787 90,458 38,702 16,001 100,666 1,769 22,371
Alt Pirineu i Aran 272,961 224,970 30,112 10,153 23,248 6,144 8,498
Barcelona 344,678 119,252 43,226 30,842 121,482 9,942 103,458
Girona 327,437 56,338 49,932 18,898 67,738 35,489 35,102
Lleida 420,807 325,507 34,087 28,542 227,364 151,737 27,295
Tarragona 158,911 149,222 22,438 33,724 162,856 65,233 37,665
Units: Hectares.
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Natural Environment.
Note: (1) Urban land, urbanisable land and infrastructures.

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 "..".