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Almaraz
Cáceres · Extremadura · 34 km²
What rustic land in Almaraz allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
Can you build a house on rustic land?
Extremadura requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.
Ley 11/2018, art. 70. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2016. 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 2 wells and boreholes in Almaraz. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 67–119 m. 3 springs are recorded.
Ground: 50% practically impermeable; 43% low permeability, local groundwater only; 6.4% surface water body.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 55 ha, in 2016.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 12% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 0.6% 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 89%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 550 mm a year (1971–2000), about 503 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 33.5 °C, about 37.6 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 18 a year, about 6 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Saucedilla · Romangordo · Belvís de Monroy · Valdecañas de Tajo · Higuera de Albalat
From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.