Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Araba/Álava
Legutio
Araba/Álava · Basque Country · 46 km²
What rustic land in Legutio 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?
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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2003. 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 one well or borehole in Legutio. Its depth: 60 m. 7 springs are recorded.
Ground: 60% low permeability, local groundwater only; 15% practically impermeable; 14% surface water body; 9% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 0.5% of the municipality lies in the 500-year flood zone.
- 15% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 90%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 1,005 mm a year (1971–2000), about 851 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 23.3 °C, about 26.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 43 a year, about 23 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Ubide · Leintz-Gatzaga · Otxandio · Zigoitia · Aramaio · Arratzua-Ubarrundia
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.