Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Illes Balears
Petra
Illes Balears · Balearic Islands · 70 km²
What rustic land in Petra 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?
The Balearic Islands requires at least 1.4 ha for a new house on rustic land.
Ley 6/1997, art. 25. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1995. 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 136 wells and boreholes in Petra. Half of the 134 with a depth found water at 7–50 m. 2 springs are recorded.
Ground: 41% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 29% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 16% porous aquifer, high productivity; 13% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 21% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 75%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 403 mm a year (1971–2000), about 336 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 30.6 °C, about 33.9 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 1 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Ariany · Santa Margalida · Vilafranca de Bonany · Sant Joan · Sineu · Sant Llorenç des Cardassar · Manacor · Artà
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.