Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › La Rioja
Ojacastro
La Rioja · La Rioja · 44 km²
What rustic land in Ojacastro 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?
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 2010. 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?
IGME records 10 wells and boreholes in Ojacastro. Half of the 9 with a depth found water at 3–7 m. 6 springs are recorded.
Ground: 91% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 5.2% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 6 ha, in 2026.
- 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.7% in the 500-year one.
- 0.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 87% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 95% of homes; fibre 85%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 647 mm a year (1971–2000), about 578 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 24.4 °C, about 27.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 68 a year, about 45 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Santurde de Rioja · Zorraquín · Santurdejo · Valgañón · Villarta-Quintana · Redecilla del Camino · Pazuengos · Ezcaray
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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.