Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Badajoz
Barcarrota
Badajoz · Extremadura · 136 km²
What rustic land in Barcarrota 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?
Extremadura requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.
Ley 11/2018, art. 70. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2000. 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 11 wells and boreholes in Barcarrota. Half of the 11 with a depth found water at 8–88 m. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 96% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 104 ha in all, the latest in 2025.
- 0.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.5% in the 500-year one.
- 5.2% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 2.6% 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 87%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 551 mm a year (1971–2000), about 481 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 32.1 °C, about 35.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 4 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Salvaleón · Almendral · Higuera de Vargas · Jerez de los Caballeros · Olivenza · Badajoz
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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.