Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Ourense
Sandiás
Ourense · Galicia · 53 km²
What rustic land in Sandiás 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?
Galicia 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 2/2016, arts. 35 y 39. 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 99% 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 Sandiás. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 184–219 m.
Ground: 48% porous aquifer, high productivity; 31% practically impermeable; 19% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 51% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 56% in the 500-year one.
- 32% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 11% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 36%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 859 mm a year (1971–2000), about 765 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 25.7 °C, about 29.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 38 a year, about 22 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Vilar de Santos · Xinzo de Limia · Xunqueira de Ambía · Allariz
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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.