Baños de Rioja

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 2004. 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 3 wells and boreholes in Baños de Rioja. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 8–9 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 52% low permeability, local groundwater only; 31% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 10% porous aquifer, high productivity; 7% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 5.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 5.7% in the 500-year one.
• 5.7% 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: 435 mm a year (1971–2000), about 389 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 26.6 °C, about 30.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 44 a year, about 25 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Villalobar de Rioja · Castañares de Rioja · Ochánduri · Tirgo · Cuzcurrita de Río Tirón · Bañares