Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Barcelona
Mataró
Barcelona · Catalonia · 22 km²
What rustic land in Mataró 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 2005. 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.
Is there water?
IGME records 45 wells and boreholes in Mataró. Half of the 43 with a depth found water at 17–35 m.
Ground: 66% practically impermeable; 22% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 11% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 500-year flood zone.
- 18% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 18% 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 100% of homes; fibre 100%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 461 mm a year (1971–2000), about 388 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 26.5 °C, about 29.4 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 8 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Sant Andreu de Llavaneres · Cabrera de Mar · Argentona · Dosrius
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.