Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Araba/Álava
Samaniego
Araba/Álava · Basque Country · 11 km²
What rustic land in Samaniego allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1995. 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 one well or borehole in Samaniego. Its depth: 100 m. 12 springs are recorded.
Ground: 70% low permeability, local groundwater only; 19% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 11% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.
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).
- 31% 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 90%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 560 mm a year (1971–2000), about 488 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 25.7 °C, about 29.4 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 51 a year, about 30 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Ábalos · Leza · Villabuena de Álava / Eskuernaga · Baños de Ebro / Mañueta · Lagrán · Peñacerrada-Urizaharra · Laguardia
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From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.