Peñamellera Baja

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 2003. 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?

No well or borehole is recorded in Peñamellera Baja. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 17 springs are recorded.

Ground: 39% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 25% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 25% low permeability, local groundwater only; 6% practically impermeable; 5.5% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 31 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 1,699 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• 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.
• 5.5% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 15% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 97% of homes; fibre 72%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,113 mm a year (1971–2000), about 937 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 21.6 °C, about 23.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 19 a year, about 7 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Peñarrubia · Ribadedeva · Herrerías · Peñamellera Alta · Val de San Vicente · Tresviso · Lamasón · Llanes