Urduña / Orduña

Can you build a house on rustic land?

The Basque Country 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 2/2006, art. 28. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2004. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.

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

Is there water?

IGME records one well or borehole in Urduña / Orduña. Its depth: 841 m.

Ground: 88% practically impermeable; 6.5% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.8% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 2.2% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.2% 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 100% of homes; fibre 77%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 912 mm a year (1971–2000), about 769 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 24.1 °C, about 26.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 30 a year, about 14 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Junta de Villalba de Losa · Ayala / Aiara · Amurrio · Urkabustaiz · Valle de Losa