Coll de Nargó

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 2011. 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 one well or borehole in Coll de Nargó. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 54% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 29% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 11% karstic or fissured aquifer, high 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).
• 23% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 23% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 91% of homes; fibre 72%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 556 mm a year (1971–2000), about 493 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.4 °C, about 31.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 102 a year, about 69 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Oliana · Peramola · Organyà · Cabó · Abella de la Conca · Fígols i Alinyà · la Baronia de Rialb · Isona i Conca Dellà