Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Tarragona
Batea
Tarragona · Catalonia · 128 km²
What rustic land in Batea 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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2005. 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 7 wells and boreholes in Batea. Half of the 7 with a depth found water at 10–150 m. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 63% low permeability, local groundwater only; 34% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 479 ha in all, the latest in 2024.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 8.6% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 8.6% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 95%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 314 mm a year (1971–2000), about 268 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 30.4 °C, about 34.2 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 23 a year, about 9 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Caseres · La Pobla de Massaluca · Vilalba dels Arcs · Nonaspe · Bot · Gandesa · Maella · Fabara
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.