Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › La Rioja
Cañas
La Rioja · La Rioja · 9.7 km²
What rustic land in Cañas 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 2012. 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?
No well or borehole is recorded in Cañas. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 5 springs are recorded.
Ground: 59% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 42% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.6% in the 500-year one.
- 0.6% 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 88%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 550 mm a year (1971–2000), about 489 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 25.4 °C, about 29 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 64 a year, about 41 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Torrecilla sobre Alesanco · Cirueña · Canillas de Río Tuerto · Villar de Torre · Villarejo · Manzanares de Rioja · Cordovín · Badarán
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.