Spain's Guardia Civil found 135,000 marijuana plants on a 12-hectare holding in Huerta de Valdecarábanos, Toledo, announced 18 October 2021, calling it the largest marijuana plantation found in Europe to date. Wider October raids across Toledo province seized more than 200,000 plants, amid official warnings over illegal farms disguised as hemp.
🇪🇸 Huerta de Valdecarábanos, Toledo · Spain
Plants destroyed
135,000
Area
12 ha
Spain’s Guardia Civil found 135,000 marijuana plants ready for consumption on a 12-hectare holding in Huerta de Valdecarábanos, Toledo, in what officers called the largest marijuana plantation found in Europe to date.[1]The force announced the find on 18 October 2021, and LaSexta carried the story with video.[1]
The find was part of a wider October crackdown in Toledo province: more than 200,000 cannabis plants were seized that month in Huerta de Valdecarábanos and the neighbouring municipalities of La Guardia and Sonseca, 420 Magazine reported, citing Civil Guard figures.[2]The Attorney General’s Office had warned of repeated attempts to pass off illegal plantations as hemp for industrial use.[2]
Date: 18 October 2021 is the announcement date; the raids may have taken place in the days before.
No arrests were reported in the opened sources.
420 Magazine's October figure of more than 200,000 plants across La Guardia, Sonseca and Huerta de Valdecarábanos may include separate operations beyond this 12-hectare holding.
Guardia Civil handout video of the plantation was republished by LaSexta, but no direct video address that could be confirmed to show this event was recovered, so no media entry was recorded.
Guardia Civil dismantled a hidden mountain cannabis complex in Aznalcóllar, seizing 2,500 plants and 50 kg of dried buds and detaining four people. Courts in Sanlúcar la Mayor ordered the four held in prison without bail as alleged members of a criminal organisation.
On 15 October 2026, the Guardia Civil dismantled a hidden cannabis plantation in woodland at Vilopriu, Girona, seized 1,360 kg of cut cannabis and arrested a 34-year-old man living in tents on the site. A judge later released him with bail conditions.
On 15 October 2026 the Guardia Civil ROCA team from Burriana dismantled two guerrilla cannabis plantations beside the river Mijares at Cirat, Castellón, counting 2,200 and 1,820 flowering plants — about eight tonnes gross, valued near €2 million. Four people aged 23 to 40 were arrested while cutting buds; agents also took 40 kg of buds in two sacks.
Spanish police destroyed about 415,000 cannabis plants across 11 fields covering 67 hectares in Navarre on 13 April 2022, calling it Europe's largest cannabis plantation. Three people were arrested after an investigation that began in mid-2021.
