Ochagavía / Otsagabia

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Navarre allows a new house on rustic land only where the town plan provides for it, on at least 1 ha.

DFL 1/2017, art. 115. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1993. The region's planning viewer ↗

The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

No well or borehole is recorded in Ochagavía / Otsagabia. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 67% practically impermeable; 20% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 7.3% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 25 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 370 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 63% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 0.6% 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 91%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,558 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,342 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 21 °C, about 24.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 97 a year, about 67 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Izalzu / Itzaltzu · Ezcároz / Ezkaroze · Jaurrieta · Uztárroz / Uztarroze · Hiriberri / Villanueva de Aezkoa · Orbaizeta