Valle de Elorz / Elortzibar

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 2002. 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 Valle de Elorz / Elortzibar. Its depth: 7 m. 3 springs are recorded.

Ground: 59% low permeability, local groundwater only; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 11% porous aquifer, high productivity; 7.2% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 6% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 2.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.4% in the 500-year one.
• 1.2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 693 mm a year (1971–2000), about 598 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25.3 °C, about 29 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 52 a year, about 30 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Beriáin · Aranguren · Monreal / Elo · Tiebas-Muruarte de Reta · Galar · Unciti · Unzué / Untzue