Tamarite de Litera

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Aragón requires at least 1 ha for a new house on rustic land.

DL 1/2014, art. 34.2. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 1988. 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 Tamarite de Litera. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 8–30 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 66% low permeability, local groundwater only; 14% porous aquifer, high productivity; 14% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 5.7% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 4,376 ha, in 2026.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 5.7% 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 86%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 280 mm a year (1971–2000), about 243 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.2 °C, about 35.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 48 a year, about 25 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Altorricón · Esplús · Binéfar · Vencillón · Almacelles · San Esteban de Litera · Alcampell · Gimenells i el Pla de la Font