Degaña

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Asturias allows a new house on rustic land only where the town plan provides for it.

DL 1/2004, art. 124. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1996. 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 Degaña. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 11 springs are recorded.

Ground: 61% practically impermeable; 23% low permeability, local groundwater only; 15% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 6 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 10,234 ha in all, the latest in 2025.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 89% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 89% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 1.6%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,387 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,226 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 20.1 °C, about 23.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 119 a year, about 84 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Páramo del Sil · Peranzanes · Palacios del Sil · Villablino · Cangas del Narcea · Ibias