Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Tarragona
El Catllar
Tarragona · Catalonia · 26 km²
What rustic land in El Catllar 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 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?
IGME records 57 wells and boreholes in El Catllar. Half of the 56 with a depth found water at 80–145 m. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 68% low permeability, local groundwater only; 26% porous 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).
- 7.4% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 7.4% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 94%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 341 mm a year (1971–2000), about 291 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 29 °C, about 32 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 4 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Els Pallaresos · La Riera de Gaià · La Secuita · Vespella de Gaià · Renau · La Nou de Gaià · Tarragona
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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.