Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Illes Balears
Sóller
Illes Balears · Illes Balears · 43 km²
What rustic land in Sóller 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?
Illes Balears 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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2005. 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 227 wells and boreholes in Sóller. Half of the 227 with a depth found water at 7–13 m. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 56% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 20% practically impermeable; 12% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 12% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 2.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.1% in the 500-year one.
- 2.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 28% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 82% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 664 mm a year (1971–2000), about 546 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 27.8 °C, about 31 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 2 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
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.