Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Tarragona
Capçanes
Tarragona · Catalonia · 22 km²
What rustic land in Capçanes 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 2003. 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 9 wells and boreholes in Capçanes. Half of the 9 with a depth found water at 13–20 m. 3 springs are recorded.
Ground: 51% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 26% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 12% practically impermeable; 8.7% 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).
- 84% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 84% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 96% of homes; fibre 91%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 457 mm a year (1971–2000), about 390 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28.8 °C, about 32.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 22 a year, about 9 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Marçà · Els Guiamets · Colldejou · Tivissa
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.