Arbancón

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 1985. The region's planning viewer ↗

The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 4 wells and boreholes in Arbancón. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 51–64 m. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 40% practically impermeable; 34% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 13% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 7% low permeability, local groundwater only; 6.3% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 33,022 ha, in 2026.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 14% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 59% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 91%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 516 mm a year (1971–2000), about 482 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.7 °C, about 32.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 83 a year, about 55 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Monasterio · Arroyo de las Fraguas · Semillas · Cogolludo · Tamajón