Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Santa Cruz de Tenerife
El Paso
Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Canarias · 136 km²
What rustic land in El Paso 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?
Canarias allows houses only inside the rural settlements the town plan marks.
Ley 4/2017, arts. 35 y 60. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2013. 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?
No well or borehole is recorded in El Paso. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.
Ground: 26% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 23% porous aquifer, high productivity; 21% low permeability, local groundwater only; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 16% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 3 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 7,559 ha in all, the latest in 2024.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 79% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 69% 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 69%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 296 mm a year (1971–2000), about 195 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 22.6 °C, about 25 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 0 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Breña Alta · Los Llanos de Aridane · Breña Baja · Santa Cruz de la Palma · Tijarafe · Villa de Mazo · Puntallana · San Andrés y Sauces
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.