Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Tarragona
El Masroig
Tarragona · Catalonia · 16 km²
What rustic land in El Masroig 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 2014. 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 4 wells and boreholes in El Masroig. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 80–163 m.
Ground: 28% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 27% low permeability, local groundwater only; 23% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 14% porous aquifer, high productivity; 8.7% practically impermeable.
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).
- 1.5% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 1.5% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 75%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 383 mm a year (1971–2000), about 327 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 30.6 °C, about 34.2 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 20 a year, about 6 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Bellmunt del Priorat · El Molar · Els Guiamets · Marçà · Garcia · Falset
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.