Calzada 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 1995. 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 55 wells and boreholes in Calzada de Calatrava. Half of the 48 with a depth found water at 10–40 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 71% practically impermeable; 21% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 3 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 511 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 85%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 364 mm a year (1971–2000), about 332 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.8 °C, about 36.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 37 a year, about 17 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Villanueva de San Carlos · Granátula de Calatrava · Aldea del Rey · Viso del Marqués · San Lorenzo de Calatrava · Mestanza