Barañáin / Barañain

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Navarre allows a new house on rustic land only where the town plan provides for it, on at least 1 ha.

DFL 1/2017, art. 115. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 1991. 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?

No well or borehole is recorded in Barañáin / Barañain. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 43% porous aquifer, high productivity; 42% practically impermeable; 15% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 13% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 13% in the 500-year one.
• 11% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 782 mm a year (1971–2000), about 667 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25.8 °C, about 29.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 49 a year, about 27 by 2041–2070.

Around it

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