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Cañaveral
Cáceres · Extremadura · 87 km²
What rustic land in Cañaveral allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
Can you build a house on rustic land?
Extremadura requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.
Ley 11/2018, art. 70. 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 7 wells and boreholes in Cañaveral. Half of the 7 with a depth found water at 40–101 m. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 92% practically impermeable; 7.4% porous aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 7 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 1,741 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 13% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 94%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 482 mm a year (1971–2000), about 438 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 32 °C, about 35.9 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 8 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Pedroso de Acim · Portezuelo · Holguera · Hinojal · Casas de Millán · Garrovillas de Alconétar · Mirabel · Riolobos
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From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.