Land cover classes (CORINE Level 1) | Land cover classes (CORINE Level 3) | 2000 | 2006 | 2012 | |||
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Area (ha) | Percentage (%) | Area (ha) | Percentage (%) | Area (ha) | Percentage (%) | ||
Artificial surfaces | Continuous urban fabric | 997 | 0.06 | 1030 | 0.07 | 527 | 0.03 |
Discontinuous urban fabric | 84,572 | 5.40 | 88,601 | 5.66 | 100,177 | 6.40 | |
Industrial or commercial units | 7487 | 0.48 | 9076 | 0.58 | 14,877 | 0.95 | |
Road and rail networks and associated land | 338 | 0.02 | 486 | 0.03 | 472 | 0.03 | |
Port areas | 926 | 0.06 | 965 | 0.06 | 489 | 0.03 | |
Airports | 2446 | 0.16 | 2438 | 0.16 | 2465 | 0.16 | |
Mineral extraction sites | 2814 | 0.18 | 3504 | 0.22 | 2987 | 0.19 | |
Dump sites | 719 | 0.05 | 807 | 0.05 | 380 | 0.02 | |
Construction sites | 493 | 0.03 | 308 | 0.02 | 56 | 0.00 | |
Green urban areas | 1148 | 0.07 | 1148 | 0.07 | 2063 | 0.13 | |
Sport and leisure facilities | 5827 | 0.37 | 7100 | 0.45 | 9708 | 0.62 | |
Agricultural areas | Non-irrigated arable land | 666,449 | 42.59 | 666,186 | 42.57 | 746,015 | 47.67 |
Fruit trees and berry plantations | 259 | 0.02 | 293 | 0.02 | 244 | 0.02 | |
Pastures | 452,238 | 28.90 | 367,189 | 23.46 | 441,388 | 28.21 | |
Complex cultivation patterns | 93,850 | 6.00 | 164,279 | 10.50 | 743 | 0.05 | |
Land principally occupied by agriculture | 24,262 | 1.55 | 27,661 | 1.77 | 6488 | 0.41 | |
Forest and semi-natural areas | Broad-leaved forest | 60,288 | 3.85 | 62,450 | 3.99 | 81,247 | 5.19 |
Coniferous forest | 51,808 | 3.31 | 51,759 | 3.31 | 53,196 | 3.40 | |
Mixed forest | 22,005 | 1.41 | 22,863 | 1.46 | 14,302 | 0.91 | |
Natural grasslands | 9400 | 0.60 | 9129 | 0.58 | 9519 | 0.61 | |
Moors and heathland | 3056 | 0.20 | 3015 | 0.19 | 4477 | 0.29 | |
Transitional woodland-shrub | 2132 | 0.14 | 2206 | 0.14 | 3934 | 0.25 | |
Beaches, dunes, sands | 4653 | 0.30 | 4433 | 0.28 | 2032 | 0.13 | |
Sparsely vegetated areas | 1321 | 0.08 | 1321 | 0.08 | 29 | 0.00 | |
Wetlands | Inland marshes | 4307 | 0.28 | 4480 | 0.29 | 4729 | 0.30 |
Peat bogs | 8946 | 0.57 | 9484 | 0.61 | 6623 | 0.42 | |
Salt marshes | 8476 | 0.54 | 8735 | 0.56 | 11,755 | 0.75 | |
Intertidal flats | 7977 | 0.51 | 8130 | 0.52 | 7485 | 0.48 | |
Water bodies | Water courses | 3241 | 0.21 | 3606 | 0.23 | 4308 | 0.28 |
Water bodies | 27,950 | 1.79 | 29,781 | 1.90 | 25,556 | 1.63 | |
Coastal lagoons | 2817 | 0.18 | 1117 | 0.07 | 5340 | 0.34 | |
Estuaries | 1716 | 0.11 | 1344 | 0.09 | 1313 | 0.08 |