The forest area in the regions/subregions of Monte and Espinal was estimated for both native forests and plantations and the results are shown in Table 4 together with total land area of the region/subregion.
Table 4. Forest area in each Region/Subregion by two different statistical estimations
Phytogeographical Region/Subregion |
Total land area* ( 000 ha) |
Estimated forest area ( 000 ha) | |||
Method 1 |
Method 211 | ||||
Native forests |
Plantations |
Native forests |
Plantations | ||
Espinal - �andubay |
9 769 |
52.2 |
22.0 |
78.3 |
25.0 |
- Algarrobal |
7 536 |
3.9 |
31.0 |
5.7 |
42.5 |
- Cald�n |
10 622 |
472.3 |
0.3 |
777.6 |
2.4 |
27 927 |
528.4 |
53.3 |
861.6 |
69.9 | |
Monte |
50 509 |
35.7 |
0.4 |
56.4 |
0.6 |
* Area estimated through digital map on phytogeographical regions presented by the Argentinean Native Forest Division
Total native forest area in the region of Espinal was estimated to between 528 400 ha Method 1, and 861 600 ha Method 2 (Table 4), corresponding to a forest cover of 1.9 - 3.1 percent in the region. The native forests in the region of Espinal were mainly concentrated to the subregion of Cald�n, with about 90 percent of the region's total forest cover. The remaining 10 percent were basically fund in the subregion of �andubay, whilst the subregion of Algarrobal comprised less than 1 percent of the region's total native forest cover.
In the region of Monte the native forest formations were sparse, estimated to between 35 700 ha Method 1 and 56 400 ha Method 2, corresponding to a forest cover of 0.07 - 0.11 percent in the region.
In the region of Espinal the extension of plantations was moderate, between 53 300 ha Method 1 and 69 900 ha Method 2 (Table 4) forming 0.19 - 0.25 percent of the land cover in the region. The forest plantations in the region of Espinal were distributed mainly between the subregions of Algarrobal and �andubay with around 60 and 40 percent respectively.
The appearance of plantations in the region of Monte was very sparse with a total area of 400 ha Method 1 to 600 ha Method 2.
11 The result of this method was not employed for the final total forest cover estimation due to its statistically poor characteristics.
