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Basauri
Bizkaia · Basque Country · 7 km²
What rustic land in Basauri 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?
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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2021. 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 Basauri. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.
Ground: 49% low permeability, local groundwater only; 29% porous aquifer, high productivity; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 6.4% karstic or fissured 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; 21% in the 500-year one.
- 4.1% 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 99%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 1,107 mm a year (1971–2000), about 933 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 24.3 °C, about 26.6 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 11 a year, about 4 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Etxebarri · Arrigorriaga · Zaratamo · Bilbao · Galdakao
Selling land in Basauri? Add a free water and building check to your listing.
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.