Parres

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Asturias allows a new house on rustic land only where the town plan provides for it.

DL 1/2004, art. 124. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2002. 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 one well or borehole in Parres. Its depth: 35 m. 25 springs are recorded.

Ground: 51% practically impermeable; 28% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 18% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 40 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 3,054 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• 1.3% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2% in the 500-year one.
• 0.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 11% 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 77%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,189 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,005 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 22.1 °C, about 23.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 14 a year, about 4 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Cangas de Onís · Caravia · Piloña · Ribadesella · Colunga · Amieva · Ponga