Argamasilla de Calatrava

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 110 wells and boreholes in Argamasilla de Calatrava. Half of the 110 with a depth found water at 13–55 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 64% practically impermeable; 18% porous aquifer, high productivity; 6.8% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 5.4% low permeability, local groundwater only; 5% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 759 ha, in 2024.
• 1.8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.8% in the 500-year one.
• 1.4% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 5.9% 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 76%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 380 mm a year (1971–2000), about 348 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.3 °C, about 36.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 32 a year, about 13 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Caracuel de Calatrava · Cañada de Calatrava · Ballesteros de Calatrava · Puertollano · Aldea del Rey · Villamayor de Calatrava · Almagro · Almodóvar del Campo