Campo de Criptana

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: 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 175 wells and boreholes in Campo de Criptana. Half of the 165 with a depth found water at 21–50 m.

Ground: 33% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 25% porous aquifer, high productivity; 14% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 14% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 9.1% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 9.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 12% in the 500-year one.
• 21% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 1.3% 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 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 299 mm a year (1971–2000), about 275 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.5 °C, about 36.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 55 a year, about 33 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Arenales de San Gregorio · Pedro Muñoz · Tomelloso · Alcázar de San Juan · Miguel Esteban · El Toboso · Quero · Argamasilla de Alba