Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Ourense
A Rúa
Ourense · Galicia · 36 km²
What rustic land in A Rúa 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?
Galicia 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 2/2016, arts. 35 y 39. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2016. 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 one well or borehole in A Rúa. Its depth: 12 m.
Ground: 76% practically impermeable; 11% low permeability, local groundwater only; 8.5% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 37,179 ha, in 2025.
- 1.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.9% in the 500-year one.
- 0.5% 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.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 93%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 930 mm a year (1971–2000), about 815 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 26.4 °C, about 30.2 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 51 a year, about 33 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.