Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Breña Alta
Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Canarias · 31 km²
What rustic land in Breña Alta 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?
Canarias allows houses only inside the rural settlements the town plan marks.
Ley 4/2017, arts. 35 y 60. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2010. 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?
No well or borehole is recorded in Breña Alta. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.
Ground: 82% low permeability, local groundwater only; 18% porous aquifer, medium 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).
- 56% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 21% 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 78%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 324 mm a year (1971–2000), about 210 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 21.6 °C, about 23.4 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 0 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
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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.