Carucedo

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla y León allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.

Ley 5/1999, art. 23.1.e. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler 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 10 wells and boreholes in Carucedo. Half of the 9 with a depth found water at 9–27 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 30% practically impermeable; 27% low permeability, local groundwater only; 25% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 12% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 4,416 ha, in 2025.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 48% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 37% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 53%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 637 mm a year (1971–2000), about 573 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.1 °C, about 31 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 66 a year, about 44 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Borrenes · Puente de Domingo Flórez · Sobrado · Toral de los Vados · Rubiá · Carracedelo