Carrión 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 1994. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 53 wells and boreholes in Carrión de Calatrava. Half of the 49 with a depth found water at 23–50 m.

Ground: 45% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 31% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 11% practically impermeable; 11% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 2 ha, in 2025.
• 9.8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 15% in the 500-year one.
• 6.3% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 85%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 349 mm a year (1971–2000), about 319 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 33 °C, about 37.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 46 a year, about 25 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Torralba de Calatrava · Miguelturra · Fernán Caballero · Ciudad Real · Almagro