Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Asturias
El Franco
Asturias · Asturias · 78 km²
What rustic land in El Franco 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?
Asturias allows a new house on rustic land only where the town plan provides for it.
DL 1/2004, art. 124. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2009. The region's planning viewer ↗
The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% 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 El Franco. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 6 springs are recorded.
Ground: 68% practically impermeable; 22% porous aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 0.9% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.9% in the 500-year one.
- 0.4% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 2.2% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 92%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 1,033 mm a year (1971–2000), about 887 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 21.2 °C, about 23.1 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 6 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Coaña · Tapia de Casariego · Boal · Castropol
Selling land in El Franco? Add a free water and building check to your listing.
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.