Épila

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Aragón requires at least 1 ha for a new house on rustic land.

DL 1/2014, art. 34.2. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1992. 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 43 wells and boreholes in Épila. Half of the 39 with a depth found water at 100–260 m. 15 springs are recorded.

Ground: 30% low permeability, local groundwater only; 27% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 23% practically impermeable; 14% porous aquifer, high productivity; 6.8% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 2.3% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3% in the 500-year one.
• 0.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 21% 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 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 288 mm a year (1971–2000), about 258 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.6 °C, about 34.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 28 a year, about 13 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Lucena de Jalón · Calatorao · Salillas de Jalón · La Muela · Alfamén · Lumpiaque · Muel · Ricla