Aldea del Rey

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 1990. 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 33 wells and boreholes in Aldea del Rey. Half of the 32 with a depth found water at 8–30 m. 5 springs are recorded.

Ground: 63% practically impermeable; 21% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 8.6% low permeability, local groundwater only; 7.6% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 32 ha in all, the latest in 2025.
• 1.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.5% in the 500-year one.
• 7.1% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 370 mm a year (1971–2000), about 338 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.1 °C, about 36.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 36 a year, about 16 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Villanueva de San Carlos · Argamasilla de Calatrava · Granátula de Calatrava · Valenzuela de Calatrava · Calzada de Calatrava · Puertollano · Almagro