Erriberagoitia / Ribera Alta

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 2003. 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 3 wells and boreholes in Erriberagoitia / Ribera Alta. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 4,109–5,300 m. 40 springs are recorded.

Ground: 38% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 23% practically impermeable; 21% karstic or fissured 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.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 20% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 7.8% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 95%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 611 mm a year (1971–2000), about 529 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25.5 °C, about 29 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 58 a year, about 36 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Añana · Iruña Oka / Iruña de Oca · La Puebla de Arganzón · Ribera Baja / Erriberabeitia · Lantarón · Kuartango · Valdegovía / Gaubea · Condado de Treviño