Kuartango

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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2021. 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 2 wells and boreholes in Kuartango. Its depth: 5,354 m. 25 springs are recorded.

Ground: 70% practically impermeable; 23% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 7.9% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 2.2% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.2% in the 500-year one.
• 2.2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 39% 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 92%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 813 mm a year (1971–2000), about 696 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 23.4 °C, about 26.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 61 a year, about 39 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Berberana · Urkabustaiz · Erriberagoitia / Ribera Alta · Valdegovía / Gaubea · Zuia · Amurrio