Alt Pirineu Natural Park - Spain

The Alt Pirineu Natural Park is a governmental institution owned by the Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya) The ownership of the lands included in the Alt Pirineu Natural Park is mainly held by Public Law organisations, for the most part Town Councils and Entitats Municipals Descentralitzades (DME-Decentralized Municipal Entities), who are the owners of communal forests (62% of the area). 36.2 % Communal Town Councils. 25,314 ha 36.0 % Communal DME. 26,293 ha 14.8 % Large Privately Owned States. 10,324 ha 9.3 % Catalan Government Generalitat de Catalunya. 6,485 ha 3.1 % Smaller Privately Owned States (smallholding). 2,148 ha 0.6 % State Government (CHE and DPH). 405 ha The legal owner of communal forests is the state body, but the right of exploitation of its natural resources relies on the neighbour communal body of a village (or villages) to which each forest belongs. Private ownership of the Park is shared among a few, large privately owned areas (named “private societies”, as could be the mountain in Tor or the states Ison-Estallo and Boavi-Broate), and the traditional smallholding ones at the foot of valleys and lower slopes of the Pyrenean mountains. Finally, the Generalitat de Catalunya is the titleholder of some forestry grounds mostly found along the core area of the river Noguera Pallaresa.