Soto en Cameros

Can you build a house on rustic land?

La Rioja requires at least 2 ha for a new house on dry, unirrigated rustic land.

Other cases: 5,000 m² on irrigated rustic land.

Ley 5/2006, art. 52. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2006. The region's planning viewer ↗

The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.

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

Is there water?

IGME records one well or borehole in Soto en Cameros. Its depth: 4 m. 10 springs are recorded.

Ground: 56% low permeability, local groundwater only; 21% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 17% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.3% in the 500-year one.
• 0.7% 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.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 97% of homes; fibre 79%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 535 mm a year (1971–2000), about 473 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 24.2 °C, about 27.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 69 a year, about 45 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Terroba · Leza de Río Leza · Hornillos de Cameros · Nalda · San Román de Cameros · Clavijo · Viguera · Lagunilla del Jubera