Puente la Reina / Gares

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 2019. 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 Puente la Reina / Gares. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 73% low permeability, local groundwater only; 13% porous aquifer, high productivity; 7.6% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 6.1% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 7,118 ha in all, the latest in 2023.
• 4.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 5.1% in the 500-year one.
• 4% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 561 mm a year (1971–2000), about 488 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 26.6 °C, about 30.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 45 a year, about 24 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Artazu · Legarda · Obanos · Mañeru · Guirguillano · Belascoáin · Zabalza / Zabaltza · Cizur