Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Illes Balears
Artà
Illes Balears · Illes Balears · 140 km²
What rustic land in Artà 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?
Illes Balears requires at least 1.4 ha for a new house on rustic land.
Ley 6/1997, art. 25. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2015. 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 330 wells and boreholes in Artà. Half of the 303 with a depth found water at 6–20 m. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 55% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 25% low permeability, local groundwater only; 10% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 8.2% porous aquifer, high productivity.
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).
- 64% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 63% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 86%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 442 mm a year (1971–2000), about 367 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 29.4 °C, about 32.6 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 1 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Capdepera · Son Servera · Sant Llorenç des Cardassar · Santa Margalida · Petra
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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.