Abia de la Obispalía

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla-La Mancha requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Other cases: 3 ha on protected rustic land.

Orden 4/2020, art. 5. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1976. 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?

No well or borehole is recorded in Abia de la Obispalía. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 43% low permeability, local groundwater only; 36% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 86%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 467 mm a year (1971–2000), about 427 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.2 °C, about 33.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 75 a year, about 49 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Villarejo de la Peñuela · Villar de Olalla · Villar y Velasco · Fuentenava de Jábaga · Huerta de la Obispalía · Torrejoncillo del Rey · Cuenca