Aínsa-Sobrarbe

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 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 Aínsa-Sobrarbe. Its depth: 3 m. 8 springs are recorded.

Ground: 54% low permeability, local groundwater only; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 13% surface water body; 13% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 4 ha, in 2021.
• 1.2% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.2% in the 500-year one.
• 0.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 25% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 15% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 69%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 695 mm a year (1971–2000), about 623 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.3 °C, about 32.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 73 a year, about 46 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Bárcabo · Boltaña · Abizanda · Adahuesca · Labuerda · Bierge · El Pueyo de Araguás · La Fueva