Almagro

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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1991. 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 124 wells and boreholes in Almagro. Half of the 106 with a depth found water at 12–58 m. 3 springs are recorded.

Ground: 44% practically impermeable; 33% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 9% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 5.6% low permeability, local groundwater only; 5.6% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 3 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 338 ha in all, the latest in 2024.
• 3.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.4% in the 500-year one.
• 1.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 4.5% 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 95%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 336 mm a year (1971–2000), about 307 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.6 °C, about 36.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 41 a year, about 20 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Valenzuela de Calatrava · Pozuelo de Calatrava · Bolaños de Calatrava · Granátula de Calatrava · Moral de Calatrava · Ballesteros de Calatrava · Torralba de Calatrava · Aldea del Rey