Barchín del Hoyo

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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 2008. 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 7 wells and boreholes in Barchín del Hoyo. Half of the 5 with a depth found water at 46–70 m. 5 springs are recorded.

Ground: 42% porous aquifer, high productivity; 32% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 18% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 7.9% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 4,746 ha in all, the latest in 2024.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 95%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 417 mm a year (1971–2000), about 375 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.6 °C, about 33.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 63 a year, about 38 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Piqueras del Castillo · Valverdejo · Olmedilla de Alarcón · Gabaldón · Chumillas · Solera de Gabaldón · Buenache de Alarcón