Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Tarragona
Alforja
Tarragona · Catalonia · 38 km²
What rustic land in Alforja allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
Can you build a house on rustic land?
Catalonia allows no new houses on rustic land. Restoring an existing or listed building is the way.
DL 1/2010, art. 47. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2016. The region's planning viewer ↗
The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
IGME records 24 wells and boreholes in Alforja. Half of the 22 with a depth found water at 12–20 m. 3 springs are recorded.
Ground: 96% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 14% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 14% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 66%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 461 mm a year (1971–2000), about 395 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 27.4 °C, about 30.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 19 a year, about 8 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Arbolí · Riudecols · Les Borges del Camp · Maspujols · Duesaigües · L'Aleixar · Vilaplana · Cornudella de Montsant
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From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.