Uharte Arakil

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Navarre allows a new house on rustic land only where the town plan provides for it, on at least 1 ha.

DFL 1/2017, art. 115. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 1991. 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?

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

Ground: 43% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 29% practically impermeable; 12% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 11% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 3.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 4.3% in the 500-year one.
• 3.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 80% 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 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,381 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,179 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 22.1 °C, about 25.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 57 a year, about 33 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Irañeta · Arruazu · Lakuntza · Ergoiena · Arbizu · Arakil · Larraun · Valle de Yerri / Deierri