Sesué

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 2005. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 0.8% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Catastro records 8 homes on rustic plots in Sesué, and 43 farm buildings. See them on the map →

Towns in Aragón where you can build a house →

Maps of Spain: Old farmhouses

Is there water?

No well or borehole is recorded in Sesué. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 43% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 38% low permeability, local groundwater only; 19% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 7.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 7.5% in the 500-year one.
• 6.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 74% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 59%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,023 mm a year (1971–2000), about 948 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 20 °C, about 23.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 164 a year, about 125 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Villanova · Castejón de Sos · Sahún