Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Palencia
Palencia
Palencia · Castilla y León · 95 km²
What rustic land in Palencia 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?
Castilla y León allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.
Ley 5/1999, art. 23.1.e. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2008. 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 4 wells and boreholes in Palencia. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 140–170 m.
Ground: 40% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 20% porous aquifer, high productivity; 18% low permeability, local groundwater only; 15% practically impermeable; 6.4% porous aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 9.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 13% in the 500-year one.
- 4.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 357 mm a year (1971–2000), about 342 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28 °C, about 32 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 82 a year, about 57 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Villamuriel de Cerrato · Villalobón · Grijota · Autilla del Pino · Magaz de Pisuerga · Fuentes de Valdepero · Husillos · Santa Cecilia del Alcor
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.