Miedes de Aragón

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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1987. 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 Miedes de Aragón. Its depth: 34 m. 5 springs are recorded.

Ground: 40% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 26% low permeability, local groundwater only; 18% porous aquifer, high productivity; 9.3% practically impermeable; 7.1% porous 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).
• 49% 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 64%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 337 mm a year (1971–2000), about 304 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.4 °C, about 32.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 75 a year, about 49 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Montón · Ruesca · Langa del Castillo · Villafeliche · Fuentes de Jiloca · Mara · Murero · Codos