Calamocha

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Aragón requires at least 1 ha for a new house on rustic land.

DL 1/2014, art. 34.2. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2003. 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 Calamocha. Half of the 21 with a depth found water at 9–46 m. 12 springs are recorded.

Ground: 30% low permeability, local groundwater only; 21% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 18% practically impermeable; 16% porous aquifer, high productivity; 13% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 2% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2% in the 500-year one.
• 1.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 16% 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.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 88%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 328 mm a year (1971–2000), about 295 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.5 °C, about 31.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 94 a year, about 65 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Barrachina · Fuentes Claras · Lagueruela · Bañón · Burbáguena · Bea · Ferreruela de Huerva · Torrecilla del Rebollar