Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Girona
Vilamacolum
Girona · Catalonia · 5.6 km²
What rustic land in Vilamacolum 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?
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 2004. 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 16 wells and boreholes in Vilamacolum. Half of the 16 with a depth found water at 9–20 m.
Ground: 40% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 32% porous aquifer, high productivity; 28% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 23% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 62% in the 500-year one.
- 14% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.08 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 490 mm a year (1971–2000), about 409 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28.3 °C, about 31.5 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 7 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Torroella de Fluvià · Riumors · Sant Pere Pescador · Castelló d'Empúries
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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.