Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Palencia
Vertavillo
Palencia · Castilla y León · 57 km²
What rustic land in Vertavillo 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?
Castilla y León allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.
Ley 5/1999, art. 23.1.e. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler 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?
No well or borehole is recorded in Vertavillo. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.
Ground: 35% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 31% low permeability, local groundwater only; 21% practically impermeable; 13% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 35 ha, in 2018.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 26% 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 94%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 393 mm a year (1971–2000), about 374 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 27.9 °C, about 32 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 81 a year, about 55 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Castrillo de Onielo · Villaconancio · Alba de Cerrato · Amusquillo · Torre de Esgueva · Castroverde de Cerrato · Hérmedes de Cerrato · Valle de Cerrato
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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.