A map of the vineyard and olive trees in Catalonia in the first half of the 18th century

Abstract

Based on the preserved documentation of Patiño’s Respuestas of 1716 to prepare the cadastre (land registry), revisions of the same, real cadastres and repartimientos kept in county archives and municipal archives (834 localities and 58.8 % of the municipalities) a attempt to make a map of vine and olive crops and annotations on other crops in the first half of the 18th century in Catalonia, to know their distribution and how far a process of agricultural specialization had begun or already existed.