Peñacerrada-Urizaharra

Can you build a house on rustic land?

The Basque Country allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.

Ley 2/2006, art. 28. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2025. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% 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 Peñacerrada-Urizaharra. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 178–376 m. 26 springs are recorded.

Ground: 29% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 22% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 21% practically impermeable; 18% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 9.3% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 50% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 79%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 614 mm a year (1971–2000), about 534 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25 °C, about 28.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 56 a year, about 34 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Zambrana · Ábalos · Samaniego · Labastida / Bastida · San Vicente de la Sonsierra · Lagrán · Condado de Treviño