La Almunia de Doña Godina

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Aragón requires at least 1 ha for a new house on rustic land.

DL 1/2014, art. 34.2. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2017. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 98% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 218 wells and boreholes in La Almunia de Doña Godina. Half of the 179 with a depth found water at 25–62 m. 3 springs are recorded.

Ground: 67% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 22% low permeability, local groundwater only; 8.1% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 11% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 11% in the 500-year one.
• 4% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 9.7% 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 96%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 266 mm a year (1971–2000), about 238 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.3 °C, about 34.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 31 a year, about 15 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Calatorao · Almonacid de la Sierra · Ricla · Alpartir · Alfamén · Chodes · Morata de Jalón