Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Illes Balears
Escorca
Illes Balears · Illes Balears · 139 km²
What rustic land in Escorca 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?
Illes Balears requires at least 1.4 ha for a new house on rustic land.
Ley 6/1997, art. 25. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1994. The region's planning viewer ↗
The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
IGME records 6 wells and boreholes in Escorca. Half of the 5 with a depth found water at 7–89 m. 10 springs are recorded.
Ground: 71% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 14% low permeability, local groundwater only; 8% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 2 ha, in 2024.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 75% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 99% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 65%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 827 mm a year (1971–2000), about 684 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 26.7 °C, about 30.2 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 4 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Mancor de la Vall · Fornalutx · Selva · Campanet · Alaró · Sóller · Pollença · Bunyola
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.