Paüls

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 2007. 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 2 wells and boreholes in Paüls. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 66–69 m. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 39% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 30% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 24% practically impermeable; 7.2% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 2,650 ha, in 2025.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 54% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 54% 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 91%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 445 mm a year (1971–2000), about 380 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29 °C, about 32.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 12 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Xerta · Prat de Comte · Horta de Sant Joan · Alfara de Carles · Benifallet