les Valls d'Aguilar

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 2015. 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 one well or borehole in les Valls d'Aguilar. Its depth: 6 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 36% practically impermeable; 29% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 26% low permeability, local groundwater only; 7.9% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 4 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 17 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• 1.3% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.3% in the 500-year one.
• 1.3% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 24% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 24% 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.

Living here

• 4G reaches 64% of homes; fibre 16%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 768 mm a year (1971–2000), about 692 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 22.1 °C, about 25.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 108 a year, about 72 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Cabó · Soriguera · Montferrer i Castellbò · Ribera d'Urgellet · Fígols i Alinyà · Conca de Dalt · Baix Pallars