Querol

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 2013. 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 5 wells and boreholes in Querol. Half of the 5 with a depth found water at 15–155 m. 5 springs are recorded.

Ground: 38% practically impermeable; 29% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 23% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 9.7% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 165 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.6% in the 500-year one.
• 0.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 64% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 64% 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 5.6%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 474 mm a year (1971–2000), about 404 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.6 °C, about 31.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 34 a year, about 16 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Pontils · El Pont d'Armentera · Aiguamúrcia · Pontons · La Llacuna · Santa Maria de Miralles