Amorebieta-Etxano

Can you build a house on rustic land?

The Basque Country 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 2/2006, art. 28. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2001. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% 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 Amorebieta-Etxano. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 40% low permeability, local groundwater only; 28% practically impermeable; 24% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 7.3% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 4.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 6.7% in the 500-year one.
• 0.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 2.7% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 4.7% 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 95%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,241 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,045 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 23.8 °C, about 26.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 14 a year, about 5 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Muxika · Lemoa · Iurreta · Durango · Igorre · Larrabetzu · Galdakao · Morga