Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › La Rioja
Gimileo
La Rioja · La Rioja · 4 km²
What rustic land in Gimileo allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
Can you build a house on rustic land?
La Rioja requires at least 2 ha for a new house on dry, unirrigated rustic land.
Other cases: 5,000 m² on irrigated rustic land.
Ley 5/2006, art. 52. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1996. The region's planning viewer ↗
The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
No well or borehole is recorded in Gimileo. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 53% low permeability, local groundwater only; 37% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 9.7% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 10% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 10% in the 500-year one.
- 9.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 2.1% 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 88%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 465 mm a year (1971–2000), about 410 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 26.5 °C, about 30.2 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 47 a year, about 27 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Ollauri · Briones · Rodezno · Haro · Labastida / Bastida
From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.