Argente

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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 2015. 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.

Catastro records 4 homes on rustic plots in Argente, 1 of them built before 1950, and 220 farm buildings. See them on the map →

Towns in Aragón where you can build a house →

Maps of Spain: Old farmhouses

Is there water?

IGME records 5 wells and boreholes in Argente. Half of the 5 with a depth found water at 115–200 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 77% low permeability, local groundwater only; 18% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.9% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.9% 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.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 304 mm a year (1971–2000), about 272 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 26.1 °C, about 30.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 108 a year, about 74 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Aguatón · Lidón · Bueña · Rubielos de la Cérida · Visiedo · Camañas