Var - Vésubie catchment
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Land use: land use map for 2019 (CORINE).
Four main land uses can be found in the Var-Vésubie catchment: artificial surface (1.8%), agricultural areas (3.2%), forest (94.9%) and water bodies (0.1%)
Within the 4 main land uses, the following uses can be found:
- Artificial surfaces
- Discontinuous urban fabric
- Industrial or commercial units
- Road and rail network
- Mineral extraction sites
- Green urban areas
- Sport and leisure facilities
- Agricultural areas
- Vineyards
- Fruit trees and berry plantations
- Olive groves
- Pastures
- Complex cultivation patterns
- Agriculture and natural vegetation
- Forest
- Broad-leaved forest
- Coniferous forest
- Mixed forest
- Natural grassland
- Moors and heathland
- Sclerophyllous vegetation
- Transitional woodland-scrub
- Beaches, dunes, sands
- Bare rocks
- Sparsely vegtated areas
- Burnt areas
- Water bodies
- Water courses
- Water bodies
Soil type: soil is mostly divided in 7 zones composed of different materials.
- Calcareous rocks
- Secondary limestone
- Crystalline rocks and migmatites
- Volcanic rocks
- Marly limestone
- Limestone
- River alluvium