Torrecilla 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 2004. 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 Torrecilla en Cameros. 9 springs are recorded.

Ground: 58% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 17% low permeability, local groundwater only; 14% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 9.6% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.9% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.6% in the 500-year one.
• 1.9% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 33% 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 88%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 641 mm a year (1971–2000), about 568 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 23.6 °C, about 27.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 80 a year, about 54 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Nestares · Almarza de Cameros · Pedroso · Nieva de Cameros · Castroviejo · Viguera · Anguiano