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Mendaro
Gipuzkoa · Basque Country · 25 km²
What rustic land in Mendaro 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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2008. 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 9 wells and boreholes in Mendaro. Half of the 5 with a depth found water at 48–150 m. 12 springs are recorded.
Ground: 53% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 33% low permeability, local groundwater only; 14% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 11% 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 96%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 1,366 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,155 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 22 °C, about 24.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 17 a year, about 7 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Deba · Elgoibar · Markina-Xemein · Mutriku · Etxebarria · Azkoitia
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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.