Rubielos de Mora

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Aragón requires at least 1 ha for a new house on rustic land.

DL 1/2014, art. 34.2. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2010. 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 3 wells and boreholes in Rubielos de Mora. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 122–193 m. 6 springs are recorded.

Ground: 40% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 29% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 28% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.1% in the 500-year one.
• 0.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 1.1% 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 85%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 395 mm a year (1971–2000), about 346 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.8 °C, about 31.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 44 a year, about 24 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Fuentes de Rubielos · Olba · Mora de Rubielos · San Agustín · Nogueruelas