1. AGRICULTURAL SPACES

2. Agricultural spaces
• There are the result of human and
physical factors:
• Environment
• Agrarian structure
• Population and rural habitat
• Agricultural policies

3. Agricultural spaces
• It is the result of different uses of
the soil:
• Traditional:
• Agriculture
• Livestock
• Forests
• New:
• Residential
• Industry
• Others

4. Use of the soil
• Traditional:
• Agriculture and livestock have been
transformed:
• Structure:
• specialization,
• technics’ introduction
• intensification
• Forest exploitation:
• Limited production
• Deforestation problems.

5. Use of the soil
• News:
• Residential
• Industrial
• Touristy
• Hunting

6. Influence of factors
• The combination of the former
factors may influence in the
following aspects:
• Agricultural landscapes
• Crisis and problems
• Policy of organization of the
agricultural space.

7. Agricultural landscapes
• We can find the following:
• Humid Spain (Atlantic)
• Interior of the Peninsula (continental
Mediterranean)
• Mediterranean
• Mountain
• Canary

8. Crisis and reasons
• They may be of these kinds:
• Demographic
• Economic
• Environmental

9. Policies for organising
agricultural landscapes
• These elements are taken into
account:
• Development and economic
diversification
• Improvement of infrastructures and
equipment
• Preservation of environment.

10. Agricultural landscapes in Spain
• We can distinguish the following:
• Humid Spain
• Interior
• Mediterranean Spain
• Mountain
• Canary

11. Humid Spain
• Location:
• North and North-East of the Iberian
Peninsula
• Physical environment:
• Stepped relief
• Oceanic climate:
• Warm temperatures, without big contrasts
• Abundant rain during the whole year

12. Humid Spain
• Agricultural structure:
• Population:
• Traditionally abundant
• Influence of migrations
• Way of settlement:
• Spread
• Agricultural property:
• Small exploitations
• Smallholdings

13. Humid Spain
• Use of the land:
• Agriculture:
• Poly culture traditional (vegetal gardens, corn,
potato, and others)
• Nowadays it is specialised in vegetal gardens and
feeding animals.
• Livestock
• The traditional exploitation in medium and small
property was extensive.
• Today it is a mixture and it has bigger size thanks
to modernization.
• Forestry
• It is important to produce furniture and paper.

15. Interior
• Location:
• Two Mesetas
• Ebro’s depression
• Physical space:
• Bleak upland, small mountains and
valleys
• Continental Mediterranean climate
(extreme temperatures, hot
summers and cold winters, with little
precipitation).

16. Interior
• Agricultural structure:
• Population:
• Traditionaly they have emigrated
• Settlement: concentrated
• Small towns (Duero and Ebro valleys)
• Big towns (South of the Peninsula)
• Agrarian property: contrasts
• Smallholding in Duero and Ebro valleys
• Estates in Salamanca, Burgos, Castile-Mancha and
Aragon and the dry area of Extremadura.

17. Interior
• Use of the land:
• Agriculture:
• Unirrigated:
• High flat areas and grass land with extensive
products
• Traditionally wheat, fallow and leguminous in
turns
• Vine and olive trees, sometimes together.
• Irrigated:
• Traditionally near rivers and orchards for self
consumption
• Nowadays in bigger surfaces industrial products,
forage and orchards.

18. Interior
• Use of the land:
• Livestock:
• Traditionally extensive:
• Meat cows in mountain regions
• Sheeps in dry areas
• Sheeps, pigs and cows in meadows
• Forestry:
• It is important in the area of Soria.

20. Mediterranean Spain
• Location:
• Mediterranean coast
• Guadalquivir valley
• Balear islands
• Physical environment:
• Accident relieves, flat near the coast but
stepped as soon as separating from the coast
• Warm Mediterranean climate, coastal (warm
temperatures, hot summers, scarce
precipitation and maximum in autumn).

21. Mediterranean Spain
• Agricultural structure:
• Population:
• Traditionally huge numbers
• Settlements:
• Dispersed, concentrated in some nuclei.
• Property:
• Smallholding in orchards
• Medium in Catalonia
• Big in Andalusia

22. Mediterranean Spain
• Use of the land:
• Agriculture:
• Irrigated:
• Orchard products in open air
• Orchard products under plastic
• Fruit trees and fruits
• Unirrigated :
• Near the coast and in Guadalquivir’s valley
• Cereals, vines, olive trees and almond.

23. Mediterranean Spain
• Use of the land :
• Livestock:
• Cows and pig in Catalonia
• Sheeps in non irrigated areas
• Bulls in the region of Guadalquivir.

24. Mountains
• Location:
• High areas
• Physical environment:
• Very stepped
• Cold climate, with snow and rain in
winter
• Vegetation ordered in different levels
(terrases).

25. Mountains
• Agrarian structure:
• Population:
• Low densities
• Trend to depopulation
• Settlement:
• Disperse in valleys, or concentrated in small
regions
• Nowadays trend to form bigger centres
• Agricultural property:
• Small property is the main one
• Mountains and prairies belong to the councils

26. Mountains
• Use of the land :
• Agriculture:
• In the valleys (in the North)
• Terrases and banks (in the South)
• Livestock:
• Extensive: cows and sheep (in the North)
• Sheeps seasonal migration in Mediterranean
mountains
• Forestry:
• Wood is used.

27. Canary Islands
• Location:
• Accidented volcanic orography
• Physical environment:
• Hot weather the whole year,
precipitations are scarce and irregular.

28. Canary Islands
• Agricultural structure:
• Population:
• Agrarian population has decreased
• Main population in the Tertiary system
• Settlements:
• Concentrated in towns (there are many
with less than 500 houses)
• Agrarian property:
• In medium and high regions smallholdings
• Coastal irrigated regions big property.

29. Canary Islands
• Use of the land
• Agriculture:
• Coast:
• Monoculture irrigated for exportation (banana,
tomato, potato)
• Winter products (cucumber, pepper, flowers)
• Tropical cultivations (papaya, mango, pineaple,
avocado)
• Interior:
• Monoculture unirrigated for self-consumption
(vine, potato, wheat)

30. Canary Islands
• Use of the land :
• Livestock:
• Sheeps are scarce
• Linked to agriculture
• Forestry:
• Main area producing pine
• Gose and laurisilvas to substain coal,
construction and agrarian cultures.