Oroz-Betelu / Orotz-Betelu

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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2004. 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 Oroz-Betelu / Orotz-Betelu. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 51% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 21% practically impermeable; 19% low permeability, local groundwater only; 8.2% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.5% in the 500-year one.
• 0.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 14% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 1% 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 84%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,368 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,165 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 22.1 °C, about 25.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 71 a year, about 45 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Garaioa · Garralda · Arce / Artzi