Es Bòrdes

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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1982. 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.

Catastro records 3 homes on rustic plots in Es Bòrdes, and 32 farm buildings. See them on the map →

Towns where a new house is allowed →

Maps of Spain: Old farmhouses

Is there water?

No well or borehole is recorded in Es Bòrdes. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 55% low permeability, local groundwater only; 24% porous aquifer, high productivity; 19% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.6% in the 500-year one.
• 76% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 78% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 91%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 984 mm a year (1971–2000), about 897 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 19.1 °C, about 22.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 168 a year, about 128 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Arres · Vielha e Mijaran · Vilamòs