Arguisuelas

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 1984. 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.

Catastro records 0 homes on rustic plots in Arguisuelas, and 32 farm buildings. See them on the map →

Towns in Castilla-La Mancha where you can build a house →

Maps of Spain: Old farmhouses

Is there water?

IGME records 6 wells and boreholes in Arguisuelas. Half of the 6 with a depth found water at 12–35 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 58% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 33% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 20% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 90%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 418 mm a year (1971–2000), about 375 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.8 °C, about 33.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 77 a year, about 49 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Reíllo · Carboneras de Guadazaón · Monteagudo de las Salinas · Cardenete · Yémeda