Cendea de Olza / Oltza Zendea

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 2004. 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?

IGME records one well or borehole in Cendea de Olza / Oltza Zendea. Its depth: 225 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 32% practically impermeable; 27% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 23% porous aquifer, high productivity; 14% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 12% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 15% 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 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 830 mm a year (1971–2000), about 707 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25.3 °C, about 28.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 49 a year, about 27 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Etxauri · Orkoien · Iza / Itza · Valle de Ollo / Ollaran · Barañáin / Barañain · Zizur Mayor / Zizur Nagusia · Cizur · Val de Goñi / Goñerri