Elburgo / Burgelu

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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2002. 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 Elburgo / Burgelu. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 68% practically impermeable; 16% porous aquifer, high productivity; 10% surface water body.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 16% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 795 mm a year (1971–2000), about 678 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 24.1 °C, about 27.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 47 a year, about 27 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Alegría-Dulantzi · Iruraiz-Gauna · Barrundia · Vitoria-Gasteiz · Arratzua-Ubarrundia · Bernedo · Leintz-Gatzaga