Nalda

Can you build a house on rustic land?

La Rioja requires at least 2 ha for a new house on dry, unirrigated rustic land.

Other cases: 5,000 m² on irrigated rustic land.

Ley 5/2006, art. 52. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2011. 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 4 wells and boreholes in Nalda. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 12 m. 8 springs are recorded.

Ground: 37% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 24% practically impermeable; 22% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 8.5% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.9% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 7.8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 8.5% in the 500-year one.
• 5.2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 48% 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 69%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 497 mm a year (1971–2000), about 439 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25.3 °C, about 29 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 60 a year, about 38 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Albelda de Iregua · Sorzano · Viguera · Clavijo · Entrena · Soto en Cameros