Sabiñánigo

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 2007. 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 5 wells and boreholes in Sabiñánigo. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 11–2,744 m. 12 springs are recorded.

Ground: 77% low permeability, local groundwater only; 10% practically impermeable; 6.6% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 10 ha, in 2024.
• 0.9% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.9% in the 500-year one.
• 0.9% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 19% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 3.8% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 77%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 878 mm a year (1971–2000), about 786 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25.8 °C, about 29.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 109 a year, about 77 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Yebra de Basa · Biescas · Jaca · Caldearenas · Fiscal · Villanúa · Nueno · Canfranc