Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › La Rioja
Bañares
La Rioja · La Rioja · 30 km²
What rustic land in Bañares 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?
La Rioja requires at least 2 ha for a new house on dry, unirrigated rustic land.
Other cases: 5,000 m² on irrigated rustic land.
Ley 5/2006, art. 52. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2008. The region's planning viewer ↗
The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
IGME records 386 wells and boreholes in Bañares. Half of the 288 with a depth found water at 8–11 m. 4 springs are recorded.
Ground: 98% porous aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 79%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 454 mm a year (1971–2000), about 405 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 26.5 °C, about 30.1 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 47 a year, about 28 by 2041–2070.
Around it
San Torcuato · Santo Domingo de la Calzada · Hervías · Villalobar de Rioja · Castañares de Rioja · Cidamón · Baños de Rioja · Cirueña
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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.