Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Barcelona
Calders
Barcelona · Catalonia · 33 km²
What rustic land in Calders 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 2012. 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 Calders. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.
Ground: 54% low permeability, local groundwater only; 46% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 27 ha, in 2026.
- 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 500-year flood zone.
- 0.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 426 mm a year (1971–2000), about 365 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 29.2 °C, about 33.1 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 72 a year, about 41 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Artés · Navarcles · Talamanca · Monistrol de Calders · Sallent · Avinyó · Moià
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.