Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Bizkaia
Murueta
Bizkaia · Basque Country · 5.6 km²
What rustic land in Murueta 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 1997. The region's planning viewer ↗
The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% of the municipality.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
No well or borehole is recorded in Murueta. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.
Ground: 39% low permeability, local groundwater only; 25% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 20% practically impermeable; 10% surface water body.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.6% in the 500-year one.
- 70% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 100% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 90%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 1,190 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,004 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 21.9 °C, about 23.9 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 8 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Selling land in Murueta? Add a free water and building check to your listing.
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.