Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › La Rioja
Grávalos
La Rioja · La Rioja · 31 km²
What rustic land in Grávalos 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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2003. 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?
IGME records 3 wells and boreholes in Grávalos. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 70–81 m. 10 springs are recorded.
Ground: 56% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 23% practically impermeable; 13% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 330 ha, in 2021.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 0.7% 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 92%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 381 mm a year (1971–2000), about 341 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 27.2 °C, about 31 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 40 a year, about 22 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Villarroya · Igea · Alfaro · Autol · Cervera del Río Alhama · Quel · Cornago
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.