Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Tarragona
La Ràpita
Tarragona · Catalonia · 53 km²
What rustic land in La Ràpita 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 98% of the municipality.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
IGME records 41 wells and boreholes in La Ràpita. Half of the 41 with a depth found water at 24–55 m. 2 springs are recorded.
Ground: 61% porous aquifer, high productivity; 18% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 18 ha, in 2025.
- 18% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 19% in the 500-year one.
- 7.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 77% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 77% 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 99%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 390 mm a year (1971–2000), about 333 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 29 °C, about 31.9 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 2 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
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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.