Forest Area of Spain

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Spain is the second European country with the largest forest area: 7.5 billion trees, just behind Sweden. An area that, in addition and against all foresight, has increased by 31% in the last decade, according to data from the National Forest Inventory, which the INE has been preparing for 50 years *.

 The three Spanish provinces with more trees in their territory have in common to share the Pyrenees mountain range: Lleida, with 324 million; Huesca, with 320 million and Gerona, 283 million. Navarra, the fourth Pyrenean province, also has an abundance of drinks (240 million) but is behind provinces such as Burgos (262), Salamanca (250), Albacete (252) or even Barcelona (256).

 At the other end of the scale is Las Palmas, the eastern province of the Canary Islands, composed of the islands of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, with just 4.4 million trees and the lowest ratio of trees per inhabitant of the entire Nation: Only 4 per inhabitant. The other less forested provinces are Seville and Alicante (31 million each), Valladolid (33 million) and Cádiz (38 million).
Table prepared by Cadena SER.

 As regards trees per capita, Soria is, by far, the most prodigal province: each soriano “has” 2,444 trees, 600 times more than the natives of Las Palmas, with just over 4 trees per head.

 The most abundant tree species in Spain is the oak, which represents 20% of the country's forest mass followed by the cork oak (15%) and the Carrasco pine (11.3%), although the latter seems to be in decline before the strength of the oak, according to CREAF (Center for Ecological Research and Forest Applications).

 * The data are from the INE, yes, but do not try to look for them on your website because all you will get is an illegible Excel file except for the initiated. The INE database must be tortured as if it were a Guantanamo prisoner to spit its truths.

 Source: https://blogs.publico.es/strambotic/2019/08/mapa-arboles/fbclid=IwAR1jiqG_n2252KjeXBzqBUq8y3cDjRRvZv8NLKWsNUbtC0svzT8nQctETfE

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