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Huércanos
La Rioja · La Rioja · 22 km²
What rustic land in Huércanos 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 2008. 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 Huércanos. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 5–6 m. 7 springs are recorded.
Ground: 63% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 35% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.6% in the 500-year one.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 95%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 432 mm a year (1971–2000), about 382 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 26.7 °C, about 30.4 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 46 a year, about 27 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Uruñuela · Alesón · Cenicero · Ventosa · Nájera · Sotés · Navarrete
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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.