Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › León
Ardón
León · Castilla y León · 49 km²
What rustic land in Ardón 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?
Castilla y León allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.
Ley 5/1999, art. 23.1.e. 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 22 wells and boreholes in Ardón. Half of the 22 with a depth found water at 5–147 m.
Ground: 42% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 39% low permeability, local groundwater only; 19% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 90 ha, in 2025.
- 9% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 9% in the 500-year one.
- 9% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 36% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 92%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 348 mm a year (1971–2000), about 329 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 27.2 °C, about 31.2 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 88 a year, about 64 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Campo de Villavidel · Cabreros del Río · Valdevimbre · Vega de Infanzones · Onzonilla · Villamañán · Chozas de Abajo
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.